People with learning disabilities are in a similar boat as those with low vision. A white cane provides an opportunity to promote disability awareness as well as being useful for navigation. There should be a variation of a white cane that assists and provides the opportunity to start the disability awareness conversation to people with learning disabilities...
...and to hit people with.-- JesusHChrist, Mar 02 2016 El Kabong https://www.youtube...watch?v=010aaw1Ajo0 [JesusHChrist, Mar 02 2016] If there's one thing that I've learned here at the halfbakery, it's that unless you provide the specifics of the idea then it verges on a "let's all".
The white cane with the red tip is already taken, and the cane serves the purpose of helping the user sense the terrain.
Why would somebody with a learning disability want to carry a cane ?-- normzone, Mar 02 2016 To hit people with.-- 8th of 7, Mar 02 2016 is it to hit people with learning disabilities, with ?-- FlyingToaster, Mar 02 2016 no for people with learning disabilities to hit people with no learning disabilities with .-- JesusHChrist, Mar 02 2016 ... or bite them.
Maybe big heavy sticks, and big angry bitey dogs ...
And guns. Lots of guns.-- 8th of 7, Mar 03 2016 When did all mental disabilities become learning disabilities?-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 03 2016 //"ability" was no longer regarded as a measure of ability.//
Ah, but, [LimpNotes], that problem was solved by the invention of the box and, soon thereafter, the tick.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 07 2016 Apotemnophilia?-- nineteenthly, Mar 09 2016 random, halfbakery