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Video clips on blindness a series daily living skills for the blind and visually impaired
presented in conjunction with the Washington State School for the Blind. The following
clip features Becky Sherman of the Department of Services for the Blind. Becky teaches daily
living skills to blind and visually impaired children and adults. This clip explains how
to safely to prepare a sandwich. Now we are going to demonstrate how to cut
a hot dog because hot dogs are easy to cut and it shows the child um… demonstrates
good holding techniques and some good knife techniques.
First of all, if you notice that I have my blade turned away from me it’s wiser if
you put your knife down you pick up the handle the knife blade is down.
So again, to demonstrate how thick I want to make these I use my index finger and move
it back the thickness I want the food to be, and tuck your thumb under. Hold it still,
take your knife up back to your finger and cut.
Then, you move your finger back again the thickness that you want.
And pull the knife up, touch your finger, cut straight down. This works with bananas,
carrots, cucumbers, anything like that. Just make sure that your knife is sharp. A sharp
knife is better than a dull knife. Make sure that when you work with your student you talk
about straight up and down; with your index finger as some control and guidance. Keep
you hand on the food that you are trying to cut and you have it made. If you want to start
with a table knife and something like a banana to measure that works with a young child very
well. Now that we have our hot dogs cut we want
to make sandwich. So, we are going to get out our two slices of bread. As you notice
the bread fits together, the two slices are together. So I open them up so that when I
close them back they fit, so you don’t have mayonnaise hanging out or a piece of bread
that doesn’t match. Lay them here. Open our mayonnaise. It’s
best to spread with a table knife again you notice that I figure out which is the blade
slide and which is the back side. Dip it in. When you are first learning get a cheap loaf
of bread and a cheap jar of mayonnaise or something and just practice spreading until
you get a good idea of how big your bread is and how much mayonnaise you might want
to have on your knife to do it. If it doesn’t slide really smooth here as it does over here
I might want to get a little bit more. Also, remember that when dip into the mayonnaise
jar, or peanut butter jar, whatever, You take the knife out- the food is on top of the knife
so you have to turn the knife over to get your peanut butter or mayonnaise or things
like that on the bread. Find the edges of my bread. There you go.
Now, put my knife up here. Put the hotdogs on.
Fold my bread over and now, and you have your lunch for the day. That’s easy to do- it
takes practice. Everyone’s sensitivities are different and you have to learn how much
mayonnaise and peanut butter that you want on your bread.
More video clips on blindness clips are available from the Washington State School for the Blind
at www.wssb.wa.gov.