Where
are you located Rick? I know several sources in our area and since
many are federally funded you may find a correlate in your area. For young
children who are blind with physical impairments there is CITE and the local
Lion's club center. For others there is the Florida Division of the
blind. Orientation and Mobility is a specialty area of vision teachers and
requires advanced training. However, at least the resources in our area
are great about sharing their wealth of information. I know when I started
working with some deaf/ blind clients they gave me oodles of information.
Also,
you may already know this already but, get a good idea of difference between
blind and visually impaired. You want to know what type of sight the
person may or may not have.
Elizabeth H. Thiers, OTR/L
Florida Elks Children's Therapy
Services
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The independent people I know with blindness have everything in their house very organized. They always keep things in the same spot. If they know braille, they use a labeler to label everything with braille writing. A professor I had really used his ears for everything! He could walk through a city and know when to cross the street by just listening to the sounds of the cars. I have never worked with training the blind myself, this is just what I have seen with the blind people I know. There are blind rehab centers around which are residential programs for training the blind. That is all the help I can offer.
