A 15 year old Blind student is gaining the knowledge and confidence with his mobility instructor, Leo Bailey, to gain independence to access the streets of Berkeley.  For years, Jeff has trained and practiced pacing the streets of Berkeley to have the steady control over his mobility.  Once granted, Jeff and other Blind students will be allowed permits to leave school on their own, to do anything their hearts’ desire.

Students are capable of learning their gridded communities through clues such as the sense of touch or smell to trigger a map of their route.  Unfortunately the work Blind students and their mobility instructors built over the years are at risk of starting back at the beginning.  The move to Fremont not only means students becoming acquainted to a new campus, but also the an entirely new community with suburban sprawl.

The streets of Berkeley are perfectly planned and aligned in a grid like fashion, allowing most Blind individuals to remember routes along with many unique landmarks and clues to help orient their surroundings.  Unlike Berkeley, Fremont gas a poor gridded system with many curved and cul de sac streets causing a Blind individual to feel disoriented in a gapping environment.