White Cane Day Research Paper
Walk for White Cane Day
Vision Australia will be hosting a special morning walk around Lake Wendouree on Sunday 18th October, informing the community of what life with vision impairment is like and how people who walk with canes get around. This walk is to raise awareness of the white cane and the positive means of independence and mobility it gives people who are blind or have low vision. International White Cane Day has been running for 50 years, spreading from the United States overseas.
The use of canes for mobility has been done for centuries and it wasn’t until the end of WW1 that the white cane was first used. A photographer from Bristol, had an accident in 1921 which left him blind and he decided to paint his walking stick white
Vision Australia will be hosting a special morning walk around Lake Wendouree on Sunday 18th October, informing the community of what life with vision impairment is like and how people who walk with canes get around. This walk is to raise awareness of the white cane and the positive means of independence and mobility it gives people who are blind or have low vision. International White Cane Day has been running for 50 years, spreading from the United States overseas.
The use of canes for mobility has been done for centuries and it wasn’t until the end of WW1 that the white cane was first used. A photographer from Bristol, had an accident in 1921 which left him blind and he decided to paint his walking stick white