This article discusses findings on schooling, pedagogy and notation in the life-experiences of amateur and professional visually-impaired musicians/music teachers, and the professional experiences of sighted music teachers who work with visually-impaired learners. The study formed part of a broader UK Arts and Humanities Research Council funded…

In recent years, the subject of the newborn disability rights movement in India has been attracting the attention of researchers, but there has been very little effort to document the movement of blind people in India for their rights, which preceded the broader disability rights movement. I therefore conducted a qualitative study of this movement…

The Training Centre for the Adult Blind in Dehra Dunn, India, was founded in 1943. In the years since, its emphasis has moved from crafts training to preparation for industrial jobs involving light engineering of various types. Braille and typing in both Indian languages and English are important parts of the program. (MF)