[blindkid] Working on our technique!

[Heather]

A disk tip?  Is it different from the standard tip that comes with a lot of 
the canes and is a circle about as big around as a quarter, but as thick as 
two or three quarters, with an attached sort of sleeve that the last half an 
inch of the cane pushes into?  Or, is it something different entirely?  They 
have come out with a lot of new materials and designs since I was actively 
cane shopping for myself.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "holly miller" <hollym12 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)" 
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Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Working on our technique!


> We've tried a few different types of canes/tips including the rolling one.
> He didn't care for that because of how heavy it is.  Right now he's using 
> an
> NFB telescoping cane with a metal disc tip.  Very light and has an added
> coolness factor of opening up like his toy light sabers do (smile) 
> Downside
> is sometimes it telescopes in unexpectedly but he likes it so much he's
> willing to deal with the occasional need to lock the sections back in 
> place.
>
>
> The key point is though, different things will work for different people.
> It's ok to experiment and find out what works best for the situation at
> hand!
>
> Holly
> aka Hank's mom
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Heather <craney07 at rochester.rr.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> What sort of tip does he have?  When I was little and had a stupid pencil
>> tip that I hated, it works well for some people, and limited hand 
>> strength,
>> because it was a heavy cane for a seven year old, I was forever snagging 
>> it
>> and punching myself in the stomach.  I wasn't very fond of this and I 
>> would
>> complain loudly and dramatically, so my O and M instructor sat down to go
>> through the handy dandy catalogue of cane parts and accessories and low 
>> and
>> behold, we picked out a rolling marshmallow tip, and voila, things were
>> pretty much solved for me, once I learned how to adapt my diagonal 
>> technique
>> and my touch tap technique to better suit this rolling, and therefore
>> gliding tip.  Hope that is helpful to someone.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "holly miller" <hollym12 at gmail.com>
>>
>>
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