Category: Daily Living
I've compiled a short list of sites with step-by-step instructions that aren't uselessly visual or exclusively reliant on metaphors involving bunnies. Hopefully, if someone makes it to adulthood without having been taught properly, they'll find this list useful.
Three ways to tie your shoes
This one contains a bunch of videos and references to colored laces, but I like it because it does a pretty good job of describing the steps in words.
How to tie a shoe - Youtube
This recording sounds like it was made in the 50s and then left in the rain. However, it was made by someone at a blind school and she tries to describe the steps.
A post on the Living Blind blog
I think this blogger uses overly complicated sentences, but they really do try to go one step at a time.
Y'all feel free to post other links.
Interesting.
What I'd suggest is for a blind person to go to a toy store and by a learning shoe.
It is like a wooden boot.
Now a seeing person can show them step by step.
Describing something, and feeling it are totally different.
The learning shoe gives you the seeing it, or feeling it experience.
You also learn to lace the shoe, because it is made exactly as a shoes made.
Like a high top sneaker.
It is ridget so it doesn't move about.
Thanks for those sites; very good idea. :)
Very good info. As a parent myself, I'll say that with a lot of new kinds of shoes, people who can see can also be embarrassed about not knowing how to tie shoes properly till later than when we were kids. Now they have buckle shoes, VELCRO shoes and slip-ons. There was a time all you could get was tie shoes as a kid, so you really had to learn it.
Took me until I was ten or eleven to get the hang of it.
I did not go blind until I was 8 so I had already learned how to tie my shoes before going blind.
I have seen those wooden shoes in school for Independence class.
I went to a blind school for summer classes until I was in the 8th grade then went in the year.
I remember them telling us that I should have velcrow shoes because i it was better for the blind kids to have velcrow instead of them trying to learn to tie their shoes.
In my sunday school class, we have a table mat that we can use with the kids to teach them to buckle, snap, belcrow, button, tie, zip and other things. I am planning to see if they can do this soon.
Yes, one of them things.
I've seen them, but I've forgotten about that.
Now me, I still can't tie my shoes, so I just wear my boots stylish like all the other guys.
You tie nots in the ends of the laces and...
JK.
I learned to tie my shoe at the age of 8. when brother used to tie them for me. :d he taught me and... I'm a shoe tier! I do wear slip ons and Velcro but I prefer tying shoes. :)
You know even tactical boots now have zippers on the inside part of your leg, so you don't have to fully unlace your boots to get them off like the old army boots.