[NFBWATLK] Article: White Cane Day gives students new understanding of blindness, KXLY News, October 16, 2018

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> On Oct 18, 2018, at 3:06 PM, Lauren Merryfield via NFBWATLK <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Wow! That was neat! It was neat because the students didn't just receive a
> short, intense time of "blindness" which might not teach them what blindness
> is really like. The neat thing was that the blind students were able to
> verbalize what it is really like being blind all the time. That must have
> made the experiences more realistic. 
> Thanks,
> Lauren
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> inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary
> troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
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> Subject: [NFBWATLK] Article: White Cane Day gives students new understanding
> of blindness, KXLY News, October 16, 2018
> 
> 
> https://www.kxly.com/news/white-cane-day-gives-students-new-understanding-of
> -blindness/808375528
> 
> White Cane Day gives students new understanding of blindness KXLY News
> October 16, 2018 By Taylor Graham
> 
> SPOKANE, Wash. - Some students became teachers at Garfield Elementary
> Tuesday, in honor of White Cane Day. The holiday celebrates the blind, but
> the school looks at it as a way to educate others.
> 
> "We were setting up the course and we heard a lot of kids saying, 'oh my
> gosh, it's White Cane Day, this is the best day ever!,'" said Janet Carlson,
> an orientation and mobility specialist for Spokane Public Schools.
> 
> For 30 minutes, kids walked with canes and played beep kickball while
> blindfolded, which gave them a chance to understand what life is like for
> six of their classmates.
> 
> "Reach out, good job, square off," one staff member told a blindfolded
> student. "Now remember, shoulder to shoulder, walk straight."
> 
> Second grader Russell Winkler listened as his classmates got lost on the
> playground.
> 
> "So they know what it's like for me," Russell said. "I know how it feels for
> blind kids."
> 
> Winkler knows how it feels, because he himself is blind. He let his
> classmates into his world on Tuesday.
> 
> "It's sort of pretty easy since I've been doing it since I was little - a
> baby, I was born like this, so it's pretty easy for me," Russell said.
> 
> Some of the other students struggled Tuesday as they made their way through
> a cane circut, using the wall, fence and their cane to walk in a circle
> around the playground. Other students played kickball -- they kicked the
> ball, listened for a beeping noise, then ran to the obstacle making the
> noise while blindfolded.
> 
> "That is it," Russell said. "You do it for a half an hour."
> 
> After half an hour, the 450 students going through White Cane Day could take
> off the blindfold. But for Russell, Sadie Barrett and four of their
> classmates, this is their reality.
> 
> "It's very fun seeing other kids do what we do," said Sadie, who has
> septo-optic dysplasia, which she says affects her depth perception.
> 
> As they helped others go through the course, they helped them understand
> what it's like to be blind.
> 
> "They all were really like, 'wow, there's a lot to this. It takes a lot of
> concentration. I see now why our students move the way they do in the
> hallways," Carlson said. "So it was a really good day."
> 
> Garfield Elementary has an award-winning vision program. Elementary students
> in the program won the Chase Youth Award for Compassion this year.
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