Speaking the truth about blind mobility, developmental delays and injury

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

Toddlers taught us everything we know about belt canes 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...

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

Comparing visual and tactile path preview 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....

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.

Pediatric Devices are Made to Fit Children’s Abilities 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

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

Nonverbal MVI assessment | Safe Toddles 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".

Our published research on the belt cane.

Wearable Cane and App System for Improving Mobility in Toddlers/Pre-schoolers With Visual Impairment 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...

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.

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

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