Blind and visually impaired students participate in ‘Cane Quest'
The event was a continuation of competition from Thursday when students did a 'Braille Challenge'. Both were hosted at the Wesley United Methodist Church in Morgantown with this year's events being the first hosted outside of the West Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind in Romney.
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For both events, qualifying students will get to go to a National Competition sponsored by the Braille Institute in Los Angeles.
Orientation and Mobility Specialist Bethanie Mateer helped organize the event and explained that the students practice navigating the world with their cane in their communities and homes, but once they become adults they are expected to be able to do it everywhere. Today's Cane Quest was a bit more practice towards that end.
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