Speaking the truth about blind mobility, developmental delays and injury

12/01/2020

The power of safe mobility to transform an infantilized three-year into an adorable preschooler.

11/11/2020

10/27/2020

Go Javi !

03/08/2020

Blind toddlers taught us everything we know about belt canes; like #10.We didn’t know blind children would run without prompting and prodding, turns out blind kids love to run when they have path information. There are nine other assumptions- read our blog

We made a lot of assumptions about how blind and mobility visually impaired toddlers would respond to belt canes. This is a list of ten assumptions that have been proven wrong since collecting videos of children wearing belt canes. The blue links take the reader to webpages containing specific examp...

03/04/2020

Remember: Every time the belt cane clangs, a blind toddler is saved from a body bruise.

What happens when a driver takes her eyes off the road? When she looks up she might jerk her head back and quickly turn the steering wheel to correct for a veer and avoid a collision. By contrast, when a driver keeps her eyes on the road she can smoothly navigate a turn so that the passenger barely....

01/23/2020

Wednesday blog theme: Pediatric belt canes are devices that help babies with MVI/B to achieve what they're capable of achieving using the abilities they have, like pediatric wheelchairs and hearing aids.

The first known dedicated wheelchair was invented in 1595 for Phillip II of Spain. By 1956, motorized wheelchairs were being mass produced. Now there are pediat

01/18/2020

Our Safe Toddles Team created an interactive nonverbal mobility visual impairment assessment. When you submit answers to the assessment questions a certified O&M specialist will send you an evaluation report and make recommendations

Children five and younger with mobility visual impairment and blindness (MVI/B) obtain independent tactile feedback about the path ahead: such as "clear path", "blocked path", "elevation change".

01/08/2020

Our published research on the belt cane.

Children with congenital severe visual impairment and blindness (SVI&B) are at greater risk of developing delays in motor and other developmental domains. This report describes a series of experiments conducted to evaluate a novel wearable cane and mobile application system prototype. The wearable c...

01/05/2020

The picture shows how the belt is designed to be worn at proper fit the Velcro connects half way. There should be room to make it inch wider and inch tighter.

Belt canes are a natural evolution of the cane, first we only had a rod-shape, then when we found kids couldn't swing it for safety, we provided them with a easy to use static arc rectangular AMD, now let's all provide babies with a cane arc they just wear- and walk with safety everywhere they go- safety equals learning.

01/05/2020

Spring semester is when students teach a friend O&M skills- at Hunter nobody walks MVI/B without mobility tools. Nobody.

01/03/2020

We made it to 100 likes!! Awesome! Happy to get your feedback on mobility for people with VI/B!!