Modern technology and the future training of specialist workers with the visually impaired

Abstract

This article is based on a talk given at the SRAB workshop on 'Technological Advance and Visual Impairment', held at Dartington Hall, Devon in November 1985. The article suggests that to enable visually impaired people to meet the challenges of advancing technology, a new kind of worker will be required. What is equally important is that the present training of specialist workers with the visually impaired should be extended and developed so as to produce a rehabilitation worker who would acquire, in an integrated form, the skills of both the technical and the mobility officer.