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Assessment and training
Orientation and mobility training is not a “one size fits all” situation. Aside from personal differences in starting skill level and learning style, there are also age related differences.
Orientation and Mobility Assessment and training.
Everyone has different travel needs. Each program is individualised to provide you with the skills and equipment ( if needed) to move around safely and independently.
Depending on your needs, training may include the following examples.
This is not a complete list:
- Assessment of your current travel skills.
- Training in visual strategies to make best use of any vision.
- Training in the use of aids such as a white cane, identification cane, support cane and miniguide.
- Identifying and using clues and landmarks in the environment.
- Using your hearing and other senses effectively when traveling.
- Human guide techniques.
- Use of public transport and ride share services.
- Safe and effective road crossing strategies and techniques.
- Learning new routes such as getting to a new workplace.
- Self advocacy skills.
- Development of concepts relating to Orientation and Mobility.
- Problem solving skills.
Orientation and mobility training is not a “one size fits all” situation. Aside from personal differences in starting skill level and learning style, there are also age related differences. Children’s O&M tends to be developmental, with a focus on play and routines based learning to develop body and spatial concepts, environmental concepts, and use of senses to gain information about the world.
Adult O&M programs often have specific goals such as use of public transport following vision loss, navigating your community, or learning the route to a new workplace.
Whatever you life stage and training needs are, a personalised program will be tailored to your needs.
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