| There's a local studio in our town. It sits at the rear of | | | | strung out on radiators throughout the home. |
| our Town House. It's called 'Sounds and Voices'. | | | | Independence is vital for us all and especially the blind. |
| Volunteers make tapes of interviews, current affairs | | | | Winter can be a dangerous time for a blind person |
| and general news. Then each tape is posted in a | | | | every time they step outside. A clothes airer in a |
| special plastic envelope to subscribers who are blind or | | | | central location in the home gives a blind person |
| hard of hearing. | | | | immediate independence. They do not have to step |
| The wall mounted clothes airer is particularly helpful for | | | | outside to dry clothes. No visits to the launderette or |
| the blind person in their home. A blind person | | | | reliance on others. They simply have to hang the |
| memorises where everything is in the home and | | | | clothes on the fixed airer. |
| quickly learns to find their way around. In this way, the | | | | The clothes airer is ideal for all handicapped people, |
| wall mounted clothes airer, or drying rack as its often | | | | especially wheelchair users who can roll their chair up |
| known, becomes an essential central drying fixture. | | | | to the airer at waist height. No need to even consider |
| Usually located in a utility room but can be mounted in | | | | going outside. Completely secure indoors at all times. |
| any room. Once the space has been identified it is a | | | | Clearly a clothes airer cannot see and does not move. |
| very simple matter to install the airer. A shallow box | | | | It very simply provides an operational centre for drying |
| fixes to the wall and the hanger rods located in the | | | | laundry. |
| box can be pulled out along folding arms for use. They | | | | The doubters may question the need but I say any little |
| can be retracted after use and tidied away. | | | | piece of independence for the disabled or physically |
| They often become a permanently expanded item | | | | disadvantaged can only help. |
| constantly in use. | | | | Maybe its time to encourage our government to give |
| The blind person welcomes a known central spot in | | | | an airer to all our social benefit. It's such an easy and |
| the home where laundry is dried and easy to find. | | | | zero cost way to dry clothes; it's almost like the blind |
| Imagine the problem they would have if clothes were | | | | leading the blind. |