Hi tom.
I have actually said before the Us services and a certain amount of their
attitudes are better.
While there are individual brailling or reading services for the rnib, the
price for them is prohibitively expensive, and the time taken is ridiculous.
For instance, when i was doing my disertation, before I'd sorted the hole
digital recorder routine, we got a book read onto cd by the rnib that it
would need. It however cost about 200 pounds to have this done which was
paid out of my readers' grant (that's about 300 usd), and furthermore, they
refused to put it into the main library, meaning that if someone else asked
them tomorrow for the same book they'd get charged the same fee. That to me
is not! the behaviour of a charity.
And getting items brailled is even worse, though luckily I can fix that
myself. To be honest, the Rnib are so damnably useless given their view of
blind people, these days my approach personally is to have as little to do
with them as possible, and either do things myself (these days I manage my
own readers' grant paying for assistance which works far better and in fact
cheaper, plus can read dynamically according to what I need done at the
time), concentrate on smaller, but better agencies like guide dog services,
who naturally deal with a more flexible view of the capabilities of blind
people, for example I've already mentioned the rather extreme guide dog
holidays group.
the only sad thing is they don't get the government or public funding the
Rnib does.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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