ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the Handicapped People in the European Community Living Independently in an Open Society (HELIOS) project and its work in Britain. The information and document service edited the HELIOS magazine which provided a major forum for the exchange and dissemination of information throughout Europe. The goal of HELIOS was to disseminate information and to broaden the knowledge of members of advances in the education and training of disabled people throughout the European Community. Queen Alexandra College in Birmingham is a college of further education that offers blind and partially sighted students a range of pre-vocational and vocational courses not necessarily linked to traditional 'blind' occupations. Its primary aim is to provide further education and training to enable blind and partially-sighted students to realise their personal, social and vocational potential. The chapter also examines the philosophy and curriculum involved in rehabilitation for the visually impaired.
