Cane & Independent Skills
A technique to protect yourself against overhead objects such as branches/cupboards, trees, doors, etc.)
What is upper body protective technique?
This is a strip of grass between the street and sidewalk.
What is a parkway?
What is a landscape strip?
This is when the traveler holds their cane diagonal to their body with the cane anchored at the curb while standing at a street corner.
What is cane "On Display" (waiting position)?
This is a traffic control where several cars stop on a street and then surge forward at the same time when it is their turn to go. These have red, green and yellow colors.
What is a traffic light?
What is a stop light?
Airplanes or lawn mowers are loud and block you from hearing nearby traffic.
What is a masking sound?
If you are having trouble hearing what can you do?
To use back (or front) side of body to establish a perpendicular line of travel to the environment. This is to help walk in a straight line. (a direction taking technique)
What is squaring off?
A path from the sidewalk to one's home (usually the front door).
What is a walkway?
Traveler uses their cane to feel the line of the curb, by running their cane vertically along the riser of the curb, then adjust and check their posture (hips, shoulders, face) so that it is squared off facing the curb.
What is squaring off with edge of curb?
This traffic light color means stop and occurs after you get a yellow light.
What is a red light?
This is the street that is in front of you or behind you.
What is a perpendicular street?
A technique used to protect against waist level objects such as benches, doorways, tables, trash cans, etc.
What is lower body protective technique?
A concrete path that goes around a block. (Usually surrounds homes, businesses, and something a person can walk on.
What is a sidewalk?
This is a safe timing method to help cross when you hear or see cars but they are far away at stop sign intersections.
What is "All Clear"?
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?
-truncated domes, tactile bumps
- ridged lines
- curb ramps (have a slope)
- signage (stop sign, traffic light, etc.)
What do all these have in common? Where can they be found?
What is on a street corner?
Traveler constantly keeps track of their position in the environment while moving (thinking ahead).
What is spatial updating?
The sidewalk grass line farthest from to the street. (Closest to houses or businesses)
What is an inside shoreline?
This is when you use your cane tip and draw an arc from curb to curb in front of the body. This is to make sure it is safe to step off the curb, and it is clear in front of you.
What is "clearing the gutter"?
A route shape that has only 1 turn whether it is right or left. For example, when walking down a hallway and you turn right and continue to walk down another hallway.
What is a "L" shaped route?
This is the street that is next to you when you are walking down a block or at a corner.
What is a parallel street?
1 or more things in the environment (physical, tactile, scent, sound) that are unique. permanent, distinctive to the environment and in a known location.
What is a landmark?
low wall that surrounds a residential yard. (Yard is higher than the sidewalk)
What is a retaining wall?
This is a safe timing method to cross when you hear cars on the parallel street next to you surge forward going straight.
What is nearside parallel surge?
This is a 3-sided sign that tells drivers that they must slow down and be ready to stop to let any vehicle, bicyclist, or pedestrian pass before you proceed through an intersection.
What is a yield sign?
What is a yield?
What are the 5 corner detection clues?
- Traffic from perpendicular street sounds close
- traffics from parallel street stops or turns
- slope of curb cut
- tactile demarcation lines or truncated domes
- time-distance estimation