Self-Study Guide: Preparing Visually Impaired Students
to Assess and Cross Streets with No Stop Sign or Traffic Signal

Index

NOTE: Items from Section 5 are not included in this index.

"A" Life-Saving Skills
Acceptable risk
Alternatives When Crossing is Too Risky
Ambient sound - effect of changes in ambient sound
Ambient sound - effect of slight increase
Ambient sound - effect on detection of vehicles
Ambient sound - varies between and within communities
Assess risk
Best practice
"Blind spot" for people with tunnel vision
Challenge, Uncertainty Prediction
"Clear to cross," determining by glancing
"Clear to cross," determining by using vision
Clear to cross when quiet?
"Clear to cross," determining when it is quiet enough to be
Cognitive disability: Understanding safety rules and concepts with a
Cognitive/Concrete learner, teaching hypothetical / abstract concepts to a
Commitment to Prepare Students
Concrete learner, teaching hypothetical / abstract concepts to a
Confidence, Situations of (defined)
Confidence: Principles to help conclude it's a Situation of Confidence
Consider alternatives when risk unacceptable
Control, No traffic control
Crossable gaps in traffic
Crosswalk: definition and pedestrian rights in each state
Crossing time, determinning
Crossing time, developing an intuitive understanding of
Deaf-blind students
Death in Situation of Uncertainty
Decide whether the risk is acceptable
Determining Gaps in Approaching Traffic (was "TMASD")
Determining Gaps in Approaching Traffic - when to use which procedure
Determining if there's a signal nearby by listening
Develop intuitive understanding of crossing time
Dick Evensen
Distance, determining crossable gaps when you can hear/see vehicles at a distance
Distance, teaching to determine crossable gaps when you can hear/see vehicles at a distance
Eccentric viewing
Environmental Modifications
Etters, Sue
Evensen, Dick and Lorraine
Eye condition challenges for scanning or glancing
Gaps in traffic
Getting help to cross
Glancing or scanning, challenges with eye conditions
Glancing or scanning for crossable gap
Glancing or scanning training
Hearing or vision, teaching students to choose and use
Hearing to determine "clear to cross"
Hearing -- learn to "tune into" sounds
Help; Getting help to cross
Hit, factors affecting likelihood of being
Hypothetical / abstract concepts, teaching to a concrete learner
Injury in Situation of Uncertainty
Intuitive understanding of crossing time, Developing
Kish, Daniel
Introduction to Situations of Uncertainty
Lanes, teaching to identify vehicles in
Life-Saving "A" Skills
Likelihood of being hit
Likelihood of unexpected vehicle
Listening to determine if there's a signal nearby
Listening OR looking "clear to cross"
Looking OR listening for "clear to cross"
Lorraine Evensen
Macular degeneration - need to use eccentric viewing
Macular degeneration - challenges and strategies for glancing
Masking sounds, learn to determine when it is quiet enough
Masking sounds, using TMAD to learn about effect of masking sounds
Multiple threats s(crossing more than one lane)
No traffic control
Pedestrian laws
Pedestrian laws for each state
Prediction Challenge
Principles to help conclude it's a Situation of Confidence
Parks, Gordon
Procedure to Develop Judgment of the Detection of Traffic
Procedure - when to use which?
Quiet, What is?
Quiet - learn to determine when it is quiet enough
Range of warning time, full
Recognize Situations of Uncertainty, how to
Research -- are there really Situations of Uncertainty?
Research -- What did we learn from sitting in lawnchairs?
Residual noise level
Review of Section 1
Review of Section 3
Review of Section 4
Right of way
Risk, acceptable
Risk, assess
Risk: likelihood of being hit
Risk: likelihood of being surprised by an approaching vehicle
Risk: likelihood of serious injury if hit
"Safe" definition
Safe -- avoiding the word "safe" when teaching to recognize Situations of Uncertainty
Safety vs. confidence
Scanning or glancing, challenges with eye conditions
Scanning or glancing for crossable gap
Scanning or glancing training
Section 1 review
Section 2 study questions
Section 3 review
Section 4 review
Skills and concepts needed at crossings with no traffic signal or stop sign:
Skills needed to determine when "clear to cross"
Signal nearby? Determining if there is one by listening
Situations of Confidence (defined)
Situation of Confidence: Principles to help conclude it's a Situation of Confidence
Situations of Uncertainty (defined)
Situations of Uncertainty - how to teach someone to recognize
Sound level difference during the day and between communities
Stop sign strategy
Study questions Section 1
Study questions Section 2
Telescopic aids for crossing
Timing Method for Assessing Detection of Vehicles (TMAD)
Timing Method for Assessing the Speed and Distance of Vehicles (TMASD)
TMAD (Timing Method for Assessing Detection of Vehicles)
TMASD (Timing Method for Assessing the Speed and Distance of Vehicles)
Traffic control, none
Traffic signal; Figure out if there is one nearby
"Tune into" sounds of vehicles
Tune into" vehicles visually
Tragedy in Situation of Uncertainty
Uncertainty Prediction Challenge
Uncertainty, Situations of (defined)
Vision or hearing, teaching students to choose and use
Vision to determine "clear to cross"
Warning time, comparing to crossing time
Warning time, full range of
Ways to cross at no traffic control
White cane laws
Width of streets, determined by listening to traffic
Worst cars: assuring they are considered
"X" - how many seconds in "X" for Determining Gaps in Approaching Traffic
Yielding, factors affecting