Guest Post from D Jay Baillie:
This morning, after breakfast, we went into the nearby town, Saint-Hyacinthe. After setting up "headquarters" at a delightful outdoor cafe, the trainers and the O&M specialist took each student one by one to work on directionality and echolocation. The others took turns working on the tactile map as they sat at tables.
If you want to try what our young students were doing today, stand on a corner and listen to the traffic. Close your eyes and just listen and determine if the traffic is going parallel to you or perpendicular to you. Then close your eyes and depend only on your senses - mostly hearing - to be able to identify the traffic pattern. Try it with your eyes closed on a street with two way traffic/four corners. Did the car go straight next to you? Did the car turn right? Did you hear it with both ears? Was it "louder" in one ear? How did that help you understand the traffic? Did the car turn left? When would you think it was safe to cross the street if you could not see the cars?
Try it and you will just have a tiny sampling of how much concentration is needed. Our young students worked on this all morning and then went back this afternoon to do more.
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