see sidebar), even a client with significant vision limitations might learn to be an independent wheelchair user.
Kiger recalls an assistive technology supplier telling her about one of the first clients he ever worked with: a man who needed his power chair adjusted, and just happened to be blind.
“He was asking [the client], ‘Can you see this color on the LED screen?’ The man said no; he was completely blind. The supplier said his knee-jerk reaction was Oh my gosh, you’re driving a power chair?
“But the client drove the chair better than anyone he’s ever seen in his life.”
