Talking Vision is Vision Australia's national radio program on blindness and low vision.
In the program for the week of August 26, a retiring orthoptist reflects on 45 years in the field and the head of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) explains the miracle in Marrakesh. In a relaxed optimistic conversation with Stephen Jolley, a retiring Vision Australia orthoptic specialist, reflects on her breadth of experience and speculates about the future for people who are blind or have low vision, in a world of medical advance and changing funding models. Also, following a Vision Australia hosted event celebrating the treaty to facilitate a massive breakthrough in availability of alternative formatted books around the world, the Director General of WIPO reflects on the achievement. We also hear words from a prominent blind Australian who has followed this closely in his leadership role of the United Nations Committee monitoring the Convention on the Wrights of Persons with Disabilities.
Participants this week are:
- Marion Rivers, veteran orthoptist and Team Manager for Vision Australia in Sydney West;
- Frances Gurry, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organisation;
- Professor Ron McCallum AO, Deputy Chair of Vision Australia and Immediate Past Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Convention on the rights of Persons with Disabilities.
You can listen here to the program or go to the Talking Vision web page for broadcast details, an outline of past programs and links to the associated audio.
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