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Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series: How to Hold a White Cane--Thumb Grasp

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      Hey, everyone. Mike Mulligan here. And in today's O&M Skill Refresher video, I'm going to be reviewing how to do the Thumb Grasp when holding on to a white cane. So in front of me here, I have an unfolded long white cane. The cane tip is straight in front of me at 12 o'clock. I'm holding on to the handle. This is a black handle. Three-quarters of it is rounded, and one-quarter of it is flat. So, what I'm going to do for Thumb Grasp is I'm gonna first put my thumb, extend it out on the flat part of the grip. So right now my thumb is extended down towards the floor, or pointing down the cane on the flat part of the grip, and my other forefingers are just wrapped around underneath the cane, coming back up. And when I'm holding this, the top of my thumb-- So my thumb, or my fingernail of my thumb, is facing towards the ceiling, and I'm holding the cane in my right hand so the back of my right hand is facing towards my right-- or like a right wall. And my other forefingers are wrapped underneath the cane, and those fingernails are facing towards the left. So that's how you do Thumb Grasp when holding on to a white cane.

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      This video provides a short demonstration on how to hold a white cane using the thumb grasp. This grip is one of three main ways of holding a white cane for someone who is blind or visually impaired. Part of the "Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series."

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      Runtime: 1 minutes 9 seconds

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      Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
      Episode 12
      7 minutes 2 seconds
      Grade Level: 6 - 12
      First-person perspective looking down as a man holds a white cane with his thumb pointed down on the handle's flat side and his other fingers wrapped around the handle grip.
      Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
      Episode 11
      1 minutes 9 seconds
      Grade Level: 6 - 12
      First-person perspective looking down as a man demonstrates how to hold a white cane loosely like it's a pencil, with the handle between his thumb and index finger.
      Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
      Episode 10
      1 minutes 23 seconds
      Grade Level: 6 - 12
      Red-headed man stands in front of a white wall, looking towards us as he speaks and gestures with his hand.
      Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
      Episode 9
      2 minutes 34 seconds
      Grade Level: 6 - 12
      Red-headed man holds up a rigid white cane with one hand, using the other hand to gesture as he speaks to us.
      Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
      Episode 8
      1 minutes 59 seconds
      Grade Level: 6 - 12
      Standing close to us, a man grips the handle of a white cane with one hand as his other hand loosely holds the elastic cord.
      Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
      Episode 7
      2 minutes 37 seconds
      Grade Level: 6 - 12
      Man holds up two sections of a partially folded white cane as he demonstrates how to fold it up.
      Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
      Episode 6
      2 minutes 42 seconds
      Grade Level: 6 - 12
      Close-up of a person holding white and red adjustable walking stick that has been folded into sections.
      Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
      Episode 5
      1 minutes 30 seconds
      Grade Level: 6 - 12
      Red-headed man uses both hands to hold a white cane up in front of his face as he shows us the cane's black handle grip.
      Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
      Episode 4
      1 minutes 19 seconds
      Grade Level: 6 - 12
      Red-headed man looks toward us while speaking and standing in front of a white wall, where a white cane leans against it.
      Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
      Episode 1
      1 minutes 58 seconds
      Grade Level: 6 - 12