Learn practical skills to get you—or your child—where you want to go, with confidence.
Orientation and Mobility (often shortened to O&M) is a term that covers the concepts, skills and techniques to help you travel safely and efficiently. Throughout your personally-tailored Orientation and Mobility training, you can learn skills to:
We can also assist your family members, friends, and loved ones to develop skills to better support you.
Children with partial vision and blindness learn about the world, themselves, and each other through safe play and exploring new environments with confidence. To do so, they need a unique set of skills to understand and move through the world. These skills are taught in Children’s Mobility training.
Children’s Mobility training can include anything from teaching kids to navigate their home and community to providing support while they adapt to a change in vision.
Every program is tailored to your child’s needs, age and skill level. And, just as kids quickly grow to meet new challenges and embrace new experiences, our programs do the same.
Children’s Mobility training can flex to support your child through their entire school life—from junior years through to Year 12—introducing different techniques and mobility aids as they become relevant.
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Importantly, all Children’s Mobility training is delivered with a focus on fun. The approach teaches your child valuable practical skills while encouraging them to enjoy themselves, make friends, be creative, and explore their potential.
Support is usually provided in one-on-one training sessions where your child is most comfortable, depending on their unique goals. These training sessions can take place in your home, at school, or out and about in the general community.
In support of ongoing Children’s Mobility training, we also offer individual programs, camps, group programs, consultant services, and workshops.
While everyone’s experience of Orientation and Mobility training is personal and unique, here are some of the specialist professionals and support staff you might meet along the way.
1. Orientation and Mobility specialists
3. Occupational Therapists
2. Rehabilitation Teachers
4. Educational Support Staff
Hear from people from all around Australia living confidently and independently with Orientation and Mobility skills.
“The Orientation and Mobility specialist spent the most time with me and I really appreciated their useful hints to help me gain my independence. I was given an identification cane which I use to gauge the depth and perception of my surroundings. Grieve the loss of function but keep looking at the brighter side. Keep positive and set goals one step at a time.”
Support to learn the skills and techniques you use in everyday life, like making dinner, gardening at home, or doing the grocery shopping.
Support to use the technology and devices that can make life easier by accessing information, finding your way around, connecting with friends, or enjoying your favourite hobbies.
Specialised support for parents or carers and their children, from birth through to seven years of age, who have partial vision or blindness.
