Nursery School for the Blind

£18.80

Classic film about educating blind children in day school.

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Producer: Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic / James Robertson.
Year Produced: 1967
Running time: 32 minutes
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Description

This nursery school  was set up by Dorothy Burlingham

During the 1960s and 70s, she directed the Research Group on the Study of Blind Children at the Hampstead Clinic in London. Her 1979 article on blind infants, “To Be Blind in a Sighted World,” published in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, is considered to be a landmark of empathic scientific observation.

The Nursery School for the Blind enabled young blind children to stay at home, when most blind children were sent away to residential nurseries, by supplementing the care given by their parents, by helping to make up for stages of development which have been missed, by encouraging curiosity, and by keeping up a continual verbal communication in order to facilitate orientation and make up for missing visual contact.

The film examines three children aged five and  seven under headings such as  ‘Enjoyment of Mobility’ and ‘Enjoyment of manual skills as an aim’  and  ‘Role Play – Fantasy and Reality’

It was made in 1967 in black and white.

Dorothy Burlingham ( granddaughter of the famous Tiffany) had moved to London in 1938 along with the Freuds, who were fleeing Nazi anti-semitism. After Sigmund Freud’s death the following year, Dorothy Burlingham settled at 2 Maresfield Gardens, not far from Anna Freud, and in 1940 she moved into the Freud home at 20 Maresfield Gardens, where she lived out her days. The two, who would remain partners for the next forty years, would found the Hampstead War Nurseries during World War II, and their joint work there would lead to the publication of Infants Without families (1943). They would also go on to found, along with Helen Ross, in 1951, the Hampstead Clinic, a centre which “set out to provide therapy and assistance to families, to treat disturbed and handicapped children irrespective of their problems, social background or past history, and at the same time to offer aspiring analysts the most balanced and rich training possible.” Both Burlingham and Freud would work at Hampstead until retirement.

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