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.

The white cane arc is an essential tool for anyone with a mobility visual impairment or blindness (MVI/B). Yet, children with an MVI/B struggle to even hold the long cane much less sweep it back and forth with each step. Children can push a static white cane arc in front of them. The static white cane arc is when it is built into the device.

William Hanks Levy and Elizabeth Gilbert invented the long cane technique constant contact for blind adults in 1872.

Co-hosts of the Safe Toddles Pediatric Belt Cane podcast, Grace Ambrose-Zaken and Kelvin Crosby, discuss the origin story and impact of...