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8. Navigating and staying safe
This activity covers ’navigation and maintaining safety using a guide dog or other aid if either or both are normally or could reasonably be used.’
Descriptors
Points
(a) Unable to navigate around familiar surroundings, without being accompanied by another person, due to sensory impairment.
15 points
(b) Cannot safely complete a potentially hazardous task such as crossing the road, without being accompanied by another person, due to sensory impairment.
15 points
(c) Unable to navigate around unfamiliar surroundings, without being accompanied by another person, due to sensory impairment.
9 points
(d) None of the above applies.
0 points
You cannot qualify as having LCWRA on the basis of this activity (navigating and staying safe) even if you satisfy one of the 15-point descriptors above.