Preparing Students for Uncontrolled Crossings
Part 3 - Maximizing Skills for Listening and Looking

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ACVREP Credit (upon passing the quiz): 3.5 hours

Maximizing use of hearing

• To detect vehicles, need to use vision or hearing, not both
  • Need to teach students to determine whether vision or hearing is better in each situation
• Basic principle for teaching hearing
  • Teaching to use hearing to line up
  • Teaching to localize traffic surges
  • Detecting vehicles as early as possible
    • "quiet cars"
    • Try different positions to find where hearing / vision is maximized (excerpted from later in webinar)
• Recognizing when it's quiet, and realizing effect of masking sound
• Teaching to use hearing to determine probable width of street

Maximizing use of vision

• Maximizing vision for detecting vehicles from one direction
• Looking in both directions
  • Looking with a severely restricted visual field
    • Challenges and strengths
      • Simulation exercise for participants who are sighted
    • Strategy: Need to scan systematically
    • Strategy: Need to scan slowly
      • Simulation exercise for participants who are sighted
      • Simulation exercise for participants who are blind
    • Looking for vehicles
    • Need to look in the correct direction (excerpted from later in the webinar)
    • Video showing scanning for vehicles with restricted visual fields
  • Looking with reduced acuity / central scotoma
    • Challenges and strengths
    • Strategy for maximizing looking for vehicles - hold the glance
      • Video showing scanning for vehicles with reduced visual acuity
      • Simulation exercise for participants who are blind
  • Review of challenges and strategies for restricted visual field OR acuity loss
  • Procedure to train students (with any visual impairment) to scan to detect vehicles
  • Two examples of using the procedure to train students
  • Must practice / assess in many situations
  • Sites for training to look from side to side
• Problem-solving to improve or develop reliable strategies to look for vehicles
• To look in both directions before crossing, do we need to: add to crossing time? teach to glance while walking?
• Try different positions to find where hearing / vision is maximized

Judging if you have time to cross when vehicles are approaching (judge gaps in traffic)