Talking Vision is Vision Australia's national radio program on blindness and low vision.
The program for the week of August 12, contains discussion of Vision Australia’s plans to close its Supported Employment service, Vision Australia Enterprises. Vision Australia’s CEO, explains the decision, the consultation process and arrangements to support each displaced worker. We hear reaction from the Blind Workers Union, Blind Citizens Australia and a distinguished blind Australian who worked in, and decades later managed the supported employment service of the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind.
Participants this week are:
Also this week, Frances Keyland from the Vision Australia Library previews another title in Reader Recommended.
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.
Keep in touch with the program through Twitter by following talkingvision1.
The program for the week of August 12, contains discussion of Vision Australia’s plans to close its Supported Employment service, Vision Australia Enterprises. Vision Australia’s CEO, explains the decision, the consultation process and arrangements to support each displaced worker. We hear reaction from the Blind Workers Union, Blind Citizens Australia and a distinguished blind Australian who worked in, and decades later managed the supported employment service of the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind.
Participants this week are:
- David Blyth AO, who worked in the industrial workshops for the blind in Brisbane and Melbourne and later managed RVIB’s Employment Services;
- Ron Hooton, CEO of Vision Australia;
- Martin Stewart, Vice President of the Blind Workers Union of Victoria;
- Cheryl Pascual President of Blind Citizens Australia.
Also this week, Frances Keyland from the Vision Australia Library previews another title in Reader Recommended.
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.
Keep in touch with the program through Twitter by following talkingvision1.