ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the stories in terms of their commonality and diversity. Although every story is individual, various major themes emerge which highlight the collective experience of visually impaired people at college and at work as well as their diversity. The chapter also examines the types of employment people have or had. It discusses the barriers they experienced both in post-school education and at work, and the measures taken to reduce them by government, institutions and visually impaired people themselves. The chapter considers job satisfaction and the need for resilience and concludes with some broad recommendations for policy makers and all who work with visually impaired people in educational and employment settings. Although people felt, and undoubtedly were, restricted in the type of work it was thought they could pursue, over 20 occupations are represented in the stories.