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Index Number: 16592

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 JM> Regarding the implications of Dr. Jernigan and Mr. Maurer
 JM> traveling frequently with sighted guides, I have observed them
 JM> both to be good cane travellers, especially Mr. Maurer, who is
 JM> perhaps the best cane traveller I have ever observed.  I do
 JM> think, however, that the extent to which they use sighted
 JM> assistants raises philosophical questions. If a sighted
 JM> assistant is an equivalent technique to travelling alone with a
 JM> cane, then why all the emphasis on learning these skills and
 JM> getting orientation centers to require that they be learned?

Jamal,
i think you pose a very serious and important question here.
One of the issues that Dr. Jernigan harps on quite a lot is the lack
of role models for people like Dr. Tenbroek and other leaders who
started the movement.  For me, I would tend to feel that what these
leaders are speaking is more than rhetoric if what you have written
above were not so much the case.

                        Bill K.

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