Balanced, Protected, and Informed O&M for Active Daily Living

The narrative that blind toddlers are lacking sensory information needed to entice them to walk is true. But it can't be vision...they don't know what sight is. Blind toddlers know and love touch feedback, and the cane frame allows them to claim the space ahead of themselves and use tactile signals from the cane frame to move with self-reliance.

Walking is one of the most celebrated milestones of childhood—and one of the first achievements we immediately take for granted. For blind children, however, independent walking has historically been delayed and often attributed to blindness itself. What happens when young children with blindness gain access to extended touch feedback that provides information about the world ahead of them? The answer may be surprisingly ordinary: walking becomes effortless, natural, and almo