TEDI 3 Week 4 - Conversations on Listening to Children with Visual Impairment

Watermeyer, Brian; Leteane, Benedict; Botha, Michelle; Lourens, Heidi

TEDI 3 Week 4 - Conversations on Listening to Children with Visual Impairment

MOOC

2019-06-01

Abstract

In this video, members of the panel discuss the emotional adjustments they had to go through once they entered the special schooling environment, from learning new skills (such as Braille) to receiving little to no emotional support. They also discussed how they as people with visual disabilities felt that they needed to manage the emotions of their friends and family members, and how their educational and home environments didn't encourage honest emotional conversations of the difficulty of living with visual disability. They also discuss the similarities between the way in which people with disabilities are treated and the segregationist policies that structure South African society in the past and continue to influence South African culture in the 21st century.