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Podcast: Growing up Blind Conversations with Dr. G
Episode: Jim born 1946 One Year After the Long Cane was Invented
Description: Send a textJim said he wished he had had cane travel in grade school – instead of always sitting on the sidelines.He remembered moving about without the long cane and didn’t recall getting hurt, but when he attended his reunion getting about the campus as an adult he didn’t understand, how he managed without a long cane, because he bumped into a lot of bicycles.He was taught to believe that long canes were just needed in “big environments” but as an adult he realized that a long cane would have kept...