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Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Mar 13, 2024
Measure Walking in Miles Not Milestones
Infants, toddlers, and preschoolers have very different walking abilities. The infant cannot walk. The toddler unsafely and unsteadily...


Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Feb 18, 2024
Separate and Unequal Independent Walking Standards for Blind Toddlers
Since 1841 when Perkins began accepting the first blind children into the first school for the blind, educators met the children at the...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Dec 28, 2023
Mission Possible! Blind Babies Wear Belt Canes, Feel Safe to Explore Independently!
Safe Toddles trusts parents’ instincts! Parents instinctively want to protect their blind babies while also encouraging them to walk...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Dec 18, 2023
Safe Independent Walking is Mission Possible for Blind Toddlers!
Dear Friend, Braylen can't see, can’t hear, and has trouble with his balance. At home, he did not walk. He sat. When Braylen's physical...


Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Nov 14, 2023
Mission Possible – Safe Toddles Year-End Fundraising Campaign
Safe Toddles trusts parents’ instincts! Parents instinctively want to protect their blind babies while also encouraging them to walk...


Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Nov 10, 2023
Mission Impossible
Mission Accomplished! Blinded veterans invented white cane safety. After WWII ended, the young soldiers who returned home blind yearned...


Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Oct 23, 2023
Mobility Devices for Young Children
What are Long Canes, Rectangular Canes, and Pediatric Belt Canes? For people with blindness or mobility visual impairment walking is a...


Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Mar 28, 2023
Age 2, Vinny Lives to Explore
Click the arrow to play his video. Vinny, age 2 and blind, was at the Easter Egg Hunt recently - an unfamiliar place with loads of...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Dec 30, 2021
Our 2022 New Year's Resolutions
Happy New Year, Team Safe Mobility! Last year, we had five resolutions for 2021 and we achieved them all! We resolved to reduce our wait...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Apr 10, 2021
Size Charts
We've added these handy size charts to our website. We still make custom sizes. These are our standard sizes and demonstrate how we use...


Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Feb 21, 2021
Five Requirements of Mobility Devices For People who are Mobility Visually Impaired and Blind
Children born blind and mobility visually impaired need safe mobility to thrive. Mobility visually impaired (MVI) is a term used to...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Dec 28, 2020


Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Apr 13, 2020
CVI or MVI? Exploring the path to gross motor delays
In thirty minutes we see how a 3-year-old girl with CVI improves gross motor, language and cane skills.


Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Mar 8, 2020
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...


Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Feb 20, 2020
The Pediatric Belt Cane Encourages Cane Control
I recently posted a video of a concept lesson with a blind two year old girl, Charna, on Facebook. While most of the feedback was...


Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Feb 5, 2020
Does the cane have a spot?
There is sign at my dentist’s office that reads- only floss the teeth you want to keep – of course, I want to keep all my teeth – clearly...


Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Nov 6, 2019
Let the whole child participate
By two years of age, the gross motor milestone, runs avoiding obstacles is essential to participating in games with other children. The...


Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Oct 29, 2019
All children need reliable path information to thrive
In the dark, sighted people experience temporary mobility visual impairment or blindness (MVI/B). MVI/B means you cannot use your vision...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Oct 5, 2019
Gross motor delays: It’s the Unexpected Collisions… duh
Children who are blind and visually impaired can and do learn to walk, and the resulting painful consequences of colliding with unseen...
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