Mobility Skills
This is when you hold onto the arm of another person above the elbow and walk normally.
Options: what is a guide?, what is human guide?, what is sighted guide?
This traffic control is when a car must stop and 1 car goes through the intersection at a time.
What is a stop sign? What is a stop sign control?
This is the middle part of the cane between the grip and the tip.
What is the shaft? What is the cane shaft?
This phrase means the street that is next to or beside you.
What is a parallel street?
This is a safe street crossing timing at stop sign intersections when you hear no cars.
What is an all clear? What is all quiet?
This is when you step behind your guide temporarily in tight spaces.
What is narrow passageway?
This traffic control sounds like multiple car engines idling and then surging forward.
What is a traffic light?
What is a stop light?
This type of cane is used primarily to give drivers an indication that you have vision loss.
What is an ID cane?
This phrase means the street that is in front of or behind you.
What is a perpendicular street?
This word means the ability for drivers to see you and your ability to see or hear cars coming from different directions.
What is visibility? What is good visibility?
This when your guide twists their arm
What is break contact?
What is letting go?
This is a street where there is only one direction of traffic.
What is a one way street?
You need to be independent at using this type of cane before you will qualify for a guide dog.
What is a mobility cane?
This word means when loud environmental sounds or large objects block you from hearing nearby traffic.
What is masking sounds? What are sound shadows?
This intersection shape is when two streets cross, one street has a dead end, and the other street goes all the way through.
What is a 3-way intersection? What is a t-shape intersection?
This is the cane technique used when you maintain contact with the edge of a wall or grass line?
What is touch trailing? What is trailing? What is shorelining?
This is when you look or listen for cars before you cross the street.
What is scanning? What is visual scanning? What is auditory scanning?
This cane tip is widely used for constant contact.
What is a rolling ball tip? What is a rolling marshmallow?
The brightly colored bumpy things you may find at a corner
What are truncated domes?
What is a detectible warning surface?
What is street braille?
This phase is where traffic turning left has the right-of-way before the ongoing traffic gets a green light.
What is an advanced left turn?
This cane technique describes moving the cane in coordination with your body. For example, if the right foot is stepping forward, the cane is sweeping or tapping on the left side of the body and vice versa.
What is staying in step with your cane?
This phase is when only left turning cars can go
What is the dedicated left turn phase?
What is the protected left turn phase?
What is the designated left turn phase?
This cane tip is used mainly for 2-point touch.
What is a ceramic tip? What is a marshmellow tip?
The traffic pattern that is used to know when to begin crossing an intersection.
What is the nearest parallel surge? What is a parallel surge?
This is where the pedestrian crosswalk is set back from the intersection.
What is an indented pedestrian crosswalk?