[nfb-talk] FW: [nfb-indiana] Early start to cane use

Thu Aug 9 20:24:41 CDT 2007

Dar,

We did keep it.

Harmeet

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Oh I hope you kept the cane for a souvenir.
I never had one when I was two?
I didn't start walking until I was three.
>From a dog that we had.
She would walk and wait for me.
I didn't learn steps well until I was seven.

--Dar
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> For my own son, learning to use this vital tool was hugely important.
> He got his first cane and started with it before his second birthday.
> It was the smallest one anyone had ever seen.  If I remember
correctly,
> a mobility instructor he later worked with in grade school actually
had
> to cut up a larger cane, restring the thing back together for him, and
> test to see if it'd work a few times before we got it right.  My kid
has
> wings now because he knows how to use that cane.  I remember being
> unable to do so many things when I was his age because I didn't have
one
> until I was older than he is now.
>
> Harmeet Sekhon
>
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>> Orlando Sentinel, Florida
>> Saturday, May 27, 2006
>>
>> Early start to cane use
>>
>> By April Hunt, Staff Writer
>>
>> The younger that blind children adapt to the tool, the easier they
can
> orient themselves.
>>
>> Austin Hicks is walking proof that putting canes into hands of blind
> children as early as possible helps their development.
>>
>> Now 14, he was just 2 when he learned how to use what some
> grade-school
> kids called his "blind stick." The cane has been a functional tool
ever
> since, an appendage to guide him through school, camp and life.
>>
>> "It just opens up doors. Without it, you can't really go anywhere,"
> said
> Austin, who will enter high school in West Palm Beach this fall. "With
> it,
> you can go just about anywhere."
>>
>> That sense of independence has captured the attention of many
> advocates
> for and parents of the blind. Families attending the National
Federation
> of
> the Blind of Florida's annual convention in Orlando had planned to
make
> their point with a "cane walk" down International Drive on Friday
> evening,
> but rain intervened.
>>
>> "It's essential to give kids independence," said Laurel Henry, a
> 25-year-old social worker from Ormond Beach who has been blind since
> birth.
> "A cane can help you to weave through obstacles and get things done."
>>
>> Yet the idea remains somewhat under debate. Under a conventional
model
> of
> mobility for the blind and vision-impaired, people with sight are
often
> the
> first guides, said Joe Cutter, who spent three decades working at the
> New
> Jersey Commission for the Blind.
>>
>> That means parents or others often take the hand of a younger child
or
> make the child grasp them as they move them along. Canes often are
> introduced much later in that model, said Cutter, who has trained a
baby
> as
> young as 10 months on how to begin using a cane.
>>
>> "The issue is, that's very vision-centered, so you rely on vision
from
> someone else," Cutter said. "What matters isn't the vision you have.
> What
> matters is the skill you have. You have to observe your own movement,
do
> it
> solo, to get those skills."
>>
>> April Hunt can be reached at 407-420-6269or ahunt at orlandosentin
> <mailto:ahunt%40orlandosentinel.com> el.com.
>>
>>
>>
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