[blparent] Transitions

[tmcgee3917]

🍃Transitions🌳
Many blind individuals experience their environment through various ways… Using a white cane, using a guide dog, using your fingers and the one method that I have perfected over the past few years, as I have been  losing more and more vision is experiencing my environment through my bare feet. As the seasons change, transition is more and more challenging for me, moving from spring and summer into fall and winter present many challenges for blind people for me it is going from bare feet around the house in the backyard to using shoes. A few years ago I might've thought that you were crazy, if you told me that I could deduce walls, surface changes, recognize when I was moving from one room to the next by detecting the change in temperature all through my bare feet. In fact it's true! I have perfected this skill over the past three years chasing around my now preschooler in my bare feet. I think it is truly incredible how I can recognize when I am playing with Desmond, that I might be getting closer and closer to A wall or a step simply by detecting changes in the environment through my bare feet. Many times you can become disoriented if you are crawling around on your hands and knees or spinning in a circle with your child as you were playing and perfecting the skill has been a welcomed addition to my toolbox of line tools. 
Photo description:
Upper left-hand photo: Tracy working her guide dog Chiffon, as she holds her preschooler Desmond's hand while traveling down the sidewalk.
Upper right hand photo:  Tracy feeling her braille spices with her fingertip.
Lower left-hand photo: Tracy using her white cane to navigate a campground.
Lower right-hand photo: Tracy using her bare feet to distinguish between the hardwood floor and the hearth of the fireplace.
 #Fall #Seasons #Transition #BrailleTools #WhiteCane #GuideDog #BrailleSpices
#Nfb #LiveTheLifeYouWant


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