Talking Vision is Vision Australia's national radio program on blindness and low vision.
In the program for the week of May 19, we celebrate the contribution of volunteers and enquire in to what is involved for students. Of the estimated 6 million Australians who support community organisations through volunteering, we speak with one of a select few hundred who care for puppies that will later become dog guides. We hear about the joys along with the challenges of raising a pup from a few weeks old to hand over time for its next life stage of what is intense training. Also, two recipients of the 2014 Vision Australia Further Education Bursary talk about student life when blind or having low vision. They explain how their new technology purchased from the bursary will assist them with their studies.
Participants this week are:
Keep in touch with the program through Twitter by following talkingvision1.
In the program for the week of May 19, we celebrate the contribution of volunteers and enquire in to what is involved for students. Of the estimated 6 million Australians who support community organisations through volunteering, we speak with one of a select few hundred who care for puppies that will later become dog guides. We hear about the joys along with the challenges of raising a pup from a few weeks old to hand over time for its next life stage of what is intense training. Also, two recipients of the 2014 Vision Australia Further Education Bursary talk about student life when blind or having low vision. They explain how their new technology purchased from the bursary will assist them with their studies.
Participants this week are:
- Debra Stevens, a puppy carer with Vision Australia’s Seeing Eye Dogs Australia;
- Jasmine Harris, studying Speech and Hearing Sciences at Macquarie University;
- Blake Ison, taking Justice and Legal Studies at Sunshine Coast University.
Keep in touch with the program through Twitter by following talkingvision1.