Talking Vision is Vision Australia's national radio program on blindness and low vision.
The program for the week of December 23, comprises a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation with two senior officers from the World Blind Union. There is more about the ‘Write to Read’ campaign and the further work to deliver the benefits of a recent WIPO Treaty to take books across boundaries for people with a print disability. There is also some reflection on some past achievements of the American National Federation of the Blind and discussion of a current initiative that will help blind pedestrians around the world.
Guests this week are:
Keep in touch with the program through Twitter by following talkingvision1.
The program for the week of December 23, comprises a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation with two senior officers from the World Blind Union. There is more about the ‘Write to Read’ campaign and the further work to deliver the benefits of a recent WIPO Treaty to take books across boundaries for people with a print disability. There is also some reflection on some past achievements of the American National Federation of the Blind and discussion of a current initiative that will help blind pedestrians around the world.
Guests this week are:
- Maryanne Diamond, Immediate Past President of the World Blind Union and General Manager of Vision Australia’s Advocacy and Engagement division;
- Dr Fredric Schroeder, First Vice President of the World Blind Union and First Vice President of the National Federation of the Blind in the United States.
Keep in touch with the program through Twitter by following talkingvision1.