Name: 11 — Cane Trainer by The Specialist
Duration: 18 min 31 s
Description: Traffic surges, tactile clues, and the smell of crispy bacon: meet a specialist who helps blind and low-vision people learn to get around independently.

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Ways of Knowing 03: Ge'ez

Episode 2 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities.

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Ways of Knowing 04: Global Disability Studies

Episode 5 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities.

Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This episode features the work of professor of Math and the Comparative History of Ideas, Jayadev Athreya.

Ways of Knowing 05: Abstract Pattern Recognition, or Math

Episode 6 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities.

Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This episode features the work of professor of cinema and media studies, Golden Owens.

Ways of Knowing 06: Sound Studies

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Episode 7 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities.

Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This episode features the work of Mal Ahern, professor of cinema and media studies.

Ways of Knowing 07: Glitches

	
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Ways of Knowing 08: Ethics of Technology

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Traffic surges, tactile clues, and the smell of crispy bacon: meet a specialist who helps blind and low-vision people learn to get around independently.

11 — Cane Trainer

A podcast about work we don't think about and the people who do it. Hosted by Casey Miner, project of KALW public radio in San Francisco. Tips? specialistpodcast@gmail.com. 

11 — Cane Trainer

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