Orientation and Mobility Specialist Garret Waldie teaches LDB Client John N. the technique for safely walking down a staircase using a white cane on Leader Dog’s campus in Rochester Hills, Michigan.

If you’ve encountered someone who is visually impaired walking down the street, you might have noticed that person using a particular kind of cane: one that’s white, sometimes with a red band. It’s ...

Stanford researchers developed a smart cane to help the visually impaired navigate their surroundings. While the cane was designed to offer improvements over traditional white canes, questions ...

Melissa Mabee is a certified orientation and mobility specialist who provides white cane training to children and adults. Christopher Butler is the executive director of IN-SIGHT, a Rhode Island ...