How do they teach someone profoundly deaf and vision impaired to cross the road.?
If there vision is less then the distance between the road. And if they can't hear the sound for walk and don't walk.
Like others said, they will probably not be alone. But some are highly independent. There is a device that a friend of mine uses (who is totally blind and hearing impaired) that will vibrate in his shirt pocket depending on the sound. The louder the sound, the more the vibration. So, a car further down the road would be less vibration than one right in front of him. However, he tells me this is problematic sometimes in the city.
He also has a guide dog. Despite some myths, guide dogs do not know when to cross the road; the guide dog user must tell the dog. However, the guide dog -will- refuse to go if there is an immediate danger (cars in the direct path), and then the guide dog's handler must determine whether to force the issue or trust the dog's instinct.
Sometimes, my friend says he just stands and waits until he knows there are many people around him (the presence of others is very easy to feel, if you are thinking about it and not 'cheating' by looking or listening), and will cross when everyone else does. On less busy streets, if he can't figure out when to go, he may stand at the corner ready to go and wait for someone to ask to help, and people are alot nicer than you might think...the blind and VI count on the kindness of strangers alot more than we want to acknowledge sometimes...oh well. We get where we want to be and do it safely and quickly. That's what matters, right?
It just depends on how much vision and how much hearing a person has.
Vision 2010 Govt School for Visually Impaired Kunnamkulam Part 2
