[Blindtlk] British using sound to assist the blind

[T. Joseph Carter]

To my mind, this is progress lost.  There was a time, not so long ago,
that a blind child would learn that such behaviors are inappropriate while
they attended a school for the blind, if they learned it nowhere else.
Today, often, people who don't know better attribute poor behavior to
their disability and allow it to continue.

Joseph

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:35:44AM -0500, seville allen wrote:
> Too bad that article assumes inappropriate behavior is okay for the blind
> kids.  What does that do for their self image or their own attitude about
> their blindness?  It would be more appropriate for these kids to have canes
> in their hands and tap the cane to get the sound from the tip tapping on the
> ground.  Sometimes we've made progress and then we are reminded just how far
> we have to go when articles like this make the papers.