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Dr. Grace Ambrose-Zaken, foremost expert in early childhood walking in children with congenital or early onset blindness and mobility...

Dr. Grace Ambrose-Zaken was selected a Hudson Valley Magazine 2024 Women in Business! The issue will be out in November, and we will be...

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Congratulations Captain Paul Chong for Best Abstract at the American Academy of Pediatrics Uniformed Services Section AAP National...

Next Steps: Safe Toddles Newsletter We’re excited to share the latest updates from Safe Toddles, including upcoming events and key...

Our Distribution: A Worldwide Impact Safe Toddles Belt Canes have been sent to children in all 50 United States and in 36 countries...

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In honor of Independence Day, we are trying to rally as much support as possible to reach our operating and innovation fund goals –...

Dear Friend, In 2023, physical therapy experts at St. Jude's Children's Medical Research Hospital along with pediatric ophthalmologists...

Give today to make every day independence day. Pediatric Belt Canes are a medical necessity.

You know every time a child with a mobility visual impairment or blindness bumps into something or trips over something without warning...

This 2023 study compared 209 adults with a mobility visual impairment or blindness (MVI/B) with sighted adults. The authors did not give...

William Hanks Levy and Elizabeth Gilbert invented the long cane technique constant contact for blind adults in 1872.

Impact report 2023 for Safe Toddles

Discover the fascinating origin story of orientation and mobility (O&M) for children born with visual impairments. From early pre-cane skills to the invention of the long cane, learn how blind children and WWII veterans shaped safe independent mobility, and why early intervention transformed the way blind toddlers learn to navigate their world.

Teaching blind children before long canes were invented shows why we believe bruises are instructional for blind babies.

Infants, toddlers, and preschoolers have very different walking abilities. The infant cannot walk. The toddler unsafely and unsteadily...