[blindkid] Working on our technique!

[Heather]

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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Subject: Re: [blindkid] Working on our technique!


> One thing that has helped Hank (9) is to hold the cane at his side instead
> of centered on his torso, griping it like it is a shopping bag handle.
>
> When he was holding it centered, if the tip got caught up on something
> (crack in the sidewalk, grass) the handle would jab him in the stomach 
> which
> made him cranky about using his cane.  When the handle is to the side and 
> it
> catches on something, his arm just swings back a little and isn't a big
> deal.  It may not be textbook perfect technique but it works for him and 
> has
> cut down on a lot of grumbling.
>
> Holly
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