Hi When you are having someone with you, you can use the human guide technique. Here, you should be holding the arm of your escort in such a way your fore arm is parallel to the ground. You will be a step or two behind the escort. This way through the body movement of the escort you can judge when you need to go up or down. Even if the escort forgets to inform you it is fine. Ideally, it is better the escort pauses for a moment before ascending or descending. You can walk with grace this way.
This will not work if your escort holds your arm. This is the wrong way to lead a blind person. You can carry the folding cane with you and put it use whenever the occasion demands it. Harish Kotian. -----Original Message----- From: bijal patel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 23 May 2012 07:25 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] A problem hi, It was happend with me many times when I had little vision in past. while walking with my friends at diffrent places, they often forgot to inform me, there are stairs or other things. As soon as I put my legs on staris, I was really so much confused and afraid. I got angry many times and told them, please tell me before stairs. Actually our friends have no mistake in it. Gredually We are habitual at our known places, so they understand, this is the cause of vision, so they understand we can hendle this situation. It's true, to using cane in such cases to avoid such situations and be independent, but it's also true, really it's not easy to hold white cane in our hands, specially late and partially blind and young person. but hey, it's not impossible also. I realise this after losing entire vision. On 5/22/12, Mohit Shah Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > When I go out with my friends, they often forget to, you know, hold my > hand and take me along. > This, you know, kind of creates awkward situations. > I am partially blind, so I do have some usable vision. > Perhaps, due to this, they sometimes forget that I need to be led by > someone. > > On Sunday, for example, I had gone to Subway. > We were just waiting outside and talking. > Then, we decided to go inside. > My friends just went to the table, and I was left in front of the door > as I didn't know where to go. > When we were going back, they again went ahead and when I accidentally > stepped on a stair, I realized that there was a staircase. > Then, one of them came forward to help me. > > Has anyone else faced something like this? > Can you give any suggestions? > > Regards, > Mohit > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > Notice: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this email by error, please notify us by return e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Reserve Bank of India accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
