Episode 22 of the Kiwi and the Emu.

This is the first episode where we speak with somebody who is not actually blind or has low vision. Lea Nagel from Victoria’s Statewide Vision Resource Centre, SVRC, speaks to us on how their flagship support skills program has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lea talks to us about the lead up to the first Victorian lockdown and how they needed to move the Support Skills Program from a weekly event where kids who are blind or have low vision attend the centre to an online version.

The online version of the Support Skills Program has worked and Lee speaks to us how this was achieved and some of the fun and lighter moments during the transition. She also praisers both staff and students of the Support Skills Program on how well everyone has enjoyed the experience and how much people have learned.

The topic of Braille and literacy also comes into the conversation and it is too SVRC’s Credit that Braille is such an important part of their contribution to the lives of School age children who are blind or have low vision in the state of Victoria.

Carolyn Peat from Auckland New Zealand and Elise Lonsdale from Melbourne Australia interview blind and low vision and now on occasion cited guests about how the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated lockdowns across Australia and New Zealand are affecting people and their work, home life and families.

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