Using a single-subject alternating treatments design, this study compared the effectiveness of a long cane and a precane device as an initial protective device for preschool children. The authors found that the precane device was the easier of the two devices for the young children to use appropriately, and it protected the children from body contact with travel obstacles to a greater extent than did the long cane.
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