O&M Skills
This is when you hold onto the arm of another person above the elbow and walk normally.
What is a guide? What is a human guide? What is a sighted guide?
The part of the cane that you hold in your hand.
What is the grip?
Types of transportation
What are trains, cars, subways, buses, Uber, Lyft etc?
The direction that is behind you when you are walking to the north.
What is south?
A street in which traffic flows in a single direction.
What is a one-way street?
When the traveler stands with his/her back next to a flat surface with their head, trunk, and feet facing forward.
What is squaring off?
Grip, shaft, tip
What are the three parts of the cane?
Yellow school bus.
What do children ride on to get to school?
I rise in the east and set in the west.
What is the sun?
This is an 8-sided red sign that requires cars to make a full stop and go through the intersection 1 at a time.
What is a stop sign?
A primary cane technique where the cane tip maintains contact with the ground and the traveler will sweep past the widest part of their body (shoulders, hips, etc.) to help detect obstacles and drop-offs.
What is the constant contact cane technique?
Detects obstacles and drop-offs as you travel.
What is a white cane?
Airplane, helicopter, and jet.
What are vehicles that travel in the air?
The four cardinal directions
What are north, east, south and west?
When two or more streets cross.
What is an intersection?
These are tactile bumps that warn travelers who are blind or visually impaired of potential danger. They are commonly found at intersection corners.
What are truncated domes?
The colors of the white cane that identifies a blind or visually impaired traveler.
What is red and white?
Used to pay for a ride on public transit
What is money or a MetroCard?
I am the direction that is NOT always in front of you.
What is north?
The street that is next to or beside you.
What is a parallel street?
Any familiar object, that is easily recognized (identifiable), is constant (fixed), and has a known, permanent location in the environment.
What is a landmark?
Marshmallow, rolling ball, and pencil
What are white cane tips?
A service that picks you up from your home and drops you off at your destination.
What is Access-a-ride, Paratransit, Uber or Lyft? (a type of car service )
I am a device that you may use to identify which direction you are walking.
What is a compass?
This driving rule is when a car can turn right even when the light is red.
What is right-on-red?