Jane Owen Hutchinson, Karen Atkinson, Jenny Orpwood, David Blunkett
Seeking to identify the many barriers that visually-impaired students have to overcome, this book suggests ways in which those barriers can be removed or reduced. The authors consider that personal attitudes and beliefs play a prominent part in dissuading visually-impaired students from taking up their rights within tertiary education, and attempt to dispel myths and misconceptions concerning blindness and partial sight. Practical advice is given on the physical factors which make life difficult for visually-impaired students, and on the use of technology to assist them.
Seeking to identify the many barriers that visually-impaired students have to overcome, this book suggests ways in which those barriers can be removed...
Ever been on a date and been threatened by a stranger wielding an ice cream? Olwen has. Ever been on a first date and found the person you are dining with trying to part your legs under the restaurant table? Olwen has. Ever wondered whether love actually exists at all? Olwen definitely has. After hitting the new low of being dumped by someone she hadn't even met yet, Olwen started to wonder whether the disastrous twists and turns of her dating journey had been her own fault all along. This is the brutally honest, hilarious and occasionally heart-breaking dating memoir of a self-confessed...
Ever been on a date and been threatened by a stranger wielding an ice cream? Olwen has. Ever been on a first date and found the person you are dining ...