ABSTRACT
The chapter describes the comparison between visually impaired and sighted physiotherapists at the end of the 1980s in terms of demographic details, aspects of employment and attitudes towards various issues including integrated physiotherapy education. Visual impairment among adults in Britain is enormously skewed to those in older age groups; it is, in fact, more age related than any other impairment, and becomes more marked the older the age group. The sample of sighted physiotherapists was considerably younger than the sample of visually impaired physiotherapists. The sighted and the visually impaired physiotherapists were asked to give the occupation of their father and their mother as an indication of socioeconomic status. Another indication of socio-economic status relates to the types of schools the physiotherapists attended as children. The sighted sample felt more positive about the attitude of the physiotherapy profession towards visually impaired physiotherapists than the visually impaired physiotherapists themselves.
