Institute on Blindness at Louisiana Tech
We know that many students will be traveling with their families for the holidays, so we wanted to share this recent conversation with Ryan Strunk about his travels in India and France. we encourage you to share it with your … Read More »
Jennifer Kennedy, MA, NOMCT is blind and works as a cane travel instructor for the Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired of Utah. She talked with us about her recent trip with her husband, Daniel Ashman, to … Read More »
Today, we are excited to announce that we have been (and will continue) to develop an additional tool for orientation and mobility instructors, who teach blind and low-vision students how to travel independently, safely and confidently using long white canes. … Read More »
Blind people and those who teach cane travel must learn to pay attention to the environment beyond the tips of their canes. We must listen to traffic, people around us, music from nearby shops, echoes caused by our tapping, and … Read More »
Conventionally-trained orientation and mobility (O&M) instructors teach students to use protective-hand techniques, which consist of holding the arm in front of the face or belly, palm out, to locate obstacles. While there are a few appropriate times to temporarily use … Read More »
Even though I am sighted, I prefer walking with sleep shades on. I get bored just walking, so with a cane in my hand, I have something to do while I’m traveling. Maybe that makes me weird, but thanks to … Read More »
I took my first flight just four years ago to attend an event in Washington, DC with other students and staff of the Louisiana Center for the Blind. As a blind person ,I wondered how I would keep track of … Read More »
On Tuesday, the staff and students from the Louisiana Center for the Blind will travel to Mardi Gras, as we do every year, to practice cane travel through crowds. When I was first learning to teach crowd travel, I was pretty … Read More »
The nation’s only non-discriminatory, certifying organization of blindness professionals was honored earlier this month with a $20,000 award. Named for Dr. Jacob Bolotin, a blind doctor from Chicago who practiced medicine in the early 20th century, the award exists to encourage the … Read More »
I recently heard a teacher say this to a blind student: “Turn right, I mean left, I mean…stop!” Too many of the students who are blind or have low vision that I observe (fortunately not many in my school district) … Read More »