During the interview with Chantal mays, I found it interesting through the training that was needed to become a mobility specialist. Her and her daughter both went through the training in order to become a mobility specialist, and she says it hasn't changed since. The training is long and seems intense, you go throughout the school year with a blindfold and cane. You are given small tasks and work your way up to bigger and harder tasks. You start with walking around building and using walls then work your way up to neighborhoods and eventually the mall, where you are to find your way around and go into stores.They give you a drop off lesson where they drop you off somewhere random and you are to find your professor at a checkpoint. This task seems very intense and honestly scary. You train six months to see how a blind person or child lives in one day. I want to know if they have recently talked about or changed the training involved with becoming a mobility specialist?
I really found this interesting as well and when Chantal Mays started talking about this, I was honestly taken back. I think this is good though for teachers and students to really immerse themselves into these courses because if you teach the blind it makes sense to understand how their feeling or what they feel like on everyday bases. When Mrs. Mays started talking about the glasses and how some glasses make you feel legally blind was fascinating to me. And how they assess how blind the students are as well. The work and dedication that goes into teaching the blind were so inspiring.
I also found this pretty cool. It's interesting how the students training to be mobility specialists also have to learn how to navigate without being able to see. This not only gives them an understanding of how it feels to learn how to navigate without being able to see, but most likely makes the specialists gain even more understanding of their students on a deeper level.