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Protective Techniques By: Venessa Escobar

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Protective Techniques By: Venessa Escobar

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  1. Protective TechniquesBy: Venessa Escobar

  2. Protective Techniques • Protective techniques allow students to travel safely and independently in familiar places, allowing them to locate objects while protecting their bodies. Protection skills are primarily used in familiar indoor environments and are designed to provide information about the environment during travel

  3. Safety First • Safety: The importance and desire to travel without mishap. Regardless of when, where, or manner, it is critical that travel be safe. Travel skills need to be learned. Individuals who are blind or severely visually impaired need to learn how to travel safely, whether using a cane, dog guide, optical device, electronic device, or combination thereof. Safety and orientation are criteria for efficient travel and reliable orientation skills.

  4. Independent travel • Independent travel is defined as the ability to travel efficiently and comfortably when, where, and by the manner that one chooses to use in order to fulfill one’s personal life needs. The skills used will vary within each individual and will be influenced by the challenges of each environment traversed during the course of every day and throughout one’s lifetime.

  5. Protective Techniques • Upper hand and forearm protection skills involve either arm right or left which is bent and held • across the body at shoulder height, parallel to the floor and with the palm facing outward • Fingertips extending beyond the opposite shoulder, providing protection from objects the student may contact at head and chest level.

  6. Lower Body Protection • With the arm extended down and held diagonally across the body • provides protection from obstacles at waist to upper leg level • These two techniques are sometimes used together, but they can be fatiguing.

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