> From: Steve Jacobson - IT Marketing Applications
> 3M Company - 555-01-03 Phone: (612) 733-9780
> St. Paul, MN 55144 FAX: (612) 736-6037
>
> The ability to travel independently and the role of electronic travel
> aids are subjects of particular interest to me. Therefore, after reading
> the comments of Mr. Downie and Mr. RaynerI decided to throw in a couple
> myself, along with some questions.
>
> First, I did not interpret the comments of Dave Andrews as saying that
> American or United States travel training was necessarily superior to
> that of the rest of the world. He may choose to speak for himself on
> this, but I understood him to say that persons in other countries were
> not familiar with the work being done by the training centers in the
> United States in which the NFB is involved. Our training centers have
> taken a different approach to teaching cane travel from that of most
> other U.S. training centers. We see the teaching of specific techniques
> as important, but only in conjunction with the development of a positive
> image of oneself as a blind person.
Hi Steve, I should let you speak for me more often,
you did a much better job at it than I.
I agree with what you say.
We need research in this area, there are potentially good travel aids
out there in the future. We also need better travel training, because more is
possible
in this area. One is not a substitute for the other.
David Andrews, director
International Braille and Technology Center
for the Blind
National Federation of the Blind
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