ABSTRACT

At fifteen, Helen Williams is a lively, ordinary teenager. Her room at home is full of early schoolbooks, workcards, a cassette recorder, and a phone extension on which she can call up her many friends. Helen is taking seven ‘O’ levels at a comprehensive school across the town, and plans to go on to take ‘A’ levels and perhaps a modern languages degree at university. The major differences between her and her fellow pupils are first that Helen is totally blind, and has been since birth, and secondly that her education in the school is supported by a resources teacher employed by the LEA.