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This study proposes orienteering as a training program with gaining experience of walking in a city area for social participation of the visually handicapped. It aims at giving recreation nature to a program for positive participation and at progress of orientation and mobiltiy by walking in various city areas with tactile maps. Through the experiment, it seems to be important to assure the safety and raise the recreation nature for the positive participation of the visually handicapped. Moreover the validity of tactile maps was found, and the support for the social participation of the visually handicapped could be expected.
