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Radio 4,07 May 2013,20 mins

Guide dogs teaming up with NBC Society

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Guide Dogs CEO Richard Leaman explains the merger of the charity with the National Blind Children's Society. Leslie Tucker from the Birkbeck BabyLab talks to Peter about research looking at the visual behaviour of sighted babies who have blind parents. Claire Pearson is a blind parent with sighted children and explains why she took part in the study and some of the methods she uses to gauge her baby's facial expressions. Producer:Cheryl Gabriel Editor:Andrew Smith.

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