And now we'll hear from Elijah Haynes, who is himself an O&M specialist, on how he introduces the cane to people for the first time.

My name is Elijah Haynes, and, uh, I'm up here in A- Anchorage, Alaska, uh, working at the Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and I am a certified orientation and mobility specialist, um, and a certified low vision, uh, therapist as well.

Um, and I do the rural outreach travel here at the center as well.

So, um, yeah, enjoying exploring Alaska and, and, um, getting around and definitely, uh, teaching cane travel in, in all sorts of conditions.

Lots of snow sometimes, you can imagine, and here in town as well.

You know, a big misconception is that a cane is only for people who have no light perception, right? Or are, are totally blind, people might say, and not realizing that most cane users have some vision left and a wide variety of vision.

You know, some people might need it just in certain conditions and in certain environments.