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In Touch: Scottish Braille Press Stops Press

25/06/2019

Scottish Braille Press Stops Press

BBC Radio 4 - In Touch, Scottish Braille Press Stops Press

Scottish Braille Press discontinues five longstanding publications.

Scottish Braille Press ends production of five publications. Claims that the Guide Dogs Association has been too slow in training a new resident.

Braille readers have enjoyed magazines from Scottish Braille Press for the best part of forty years. Now the charity says it is discontinuing all of its five publications. Scottish Braille Press CEO Mark O’Donnell explains the decision.

Aletea Sellers moved from one side of Birmingham to the other about four months ago.  She is still waiting for help from the Guide Dogs Association to learn her way around her new neighbourhood. 

Erin Jepsen has two visually impaired children and reads and transcribes braille herself. She wanted to find out how changing the word “braille” to “print” in an educational context might challenge some attitudes towards it.

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Lee Kumutat

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