BLOOMINGTON – Dr. Shirin E. Hassan, an assistant professor at Indiana University and a low-vision optometrist, has received a $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to evaluate street-crossing decision-making performance in pedestrians who are elderly, visually impaired or blind.
She will investigate the effectiveness of a current orientation and mobility street-crossing training program used by instructors across the country to help the visually impaired. The study will run for the next five years.
She said that when making street-crossing decision, if pedestrian don’t take into account their reduced vision and slow walking speed, it could place them in a dangerous situation with traffic.
