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Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series: The Parts of a Folding White Cane

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      Hey there. Mike Mulligan here. And in today's O&M Skill Refresher video, I'm gonna be talking about the different parts of a folding white cane. So folding white canes have a lot of different pieces and parts to them, and it's helpful to know what those are. So I'm gonna start at the top of the cane. So at the top of the cane-- I have a cane here in my hand-- there is an elastic cord. There's a big elastic loop and then a small elastic loop, and the small elastic loop is what holds the cane together when it's folded, which I'll talk about in another refresher video. And then if we trace that down, we come to the handle. So on this cane, it's a black handle. Three-quarters of it is rounded or curved, and then part of it is flat where our fingers will go. And then if we trace that down, we come to the shaft of the cane. So that's the long main part of the cane. This one is white for the majority of it, and then it is red-- the bottom section is red. But on the way down the shaft, there are the joints, and the joints is the part where the cane folds. So on this cane here, this folding cane, I have one, two, three joints. And then at the very end of the cane is where the cane tip goes. So right now I have a red rolling ball cane tip here on the end, but this is changeable and depends on the cane and the different cane tips that can be added to it. So that's just the basic rundown of the parts of a folding white cane.

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      Certified Orientation and Mobility instructor Mike Mulligan provides a quick refresher on the parts of a folding white cane. Part of the "Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series."

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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