Hi everyone! Some of you have seen the APH webinar which Dr. Amy Parker organized, where I taught Jeremy some street-crossing skills remotely Jeremy and I had another remote lesson last Thursday, where both of us learned a lot! He was practicing to improve his ability to hear approaching vehicles sooner, and we noticed that the first cue is often nothing more than a slight change in frequency. As a musician (among other things!), Jeremy knew about some apps that can help people learn to detect changes in frequency better. I’d LOVE to see someone research (1) the relationship between people’s ability to hear approaching vehicles and their ability to discern differences in frequency, and 2) whether training (with one of the apps) to notice changes in frequency makes people able to hear approaching vehicles sooner. Maybe our WMU research heroes or some graduate students could take this on? Meanwhile, a video with segments of our last remote lesson is at www.sauerburger.org/dona/Remote.html#hearing . Jeremy and I plan to meet in person in the next week or two to make sure he can apply what he learned remotely, and learn other skills that aren’t possible (or I don’t know how!) to teach remotely. Enjoy! -- Dona ________________________________________ Dona Sauerburger, COMS Orientation and Mobility Specialist for the blind Gambrills, Maryland dona@sauerburger.org / 301-858-0138 www.sauerburger.org ________________________________________