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Children with MVI/B who wear belt canes achieve gross motor milestones 18-months and higher
This video is a series of short clips showing one, two and three year old children who are blind or have tunnel vision wearing their...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Jan 29, 2020


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...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Jan 22, 2020


When is Silence a Negative Sign?
There is a need to tackle another aspect of preschoolers' tears, the lack of tears in response to collisions. The reason Safe Toddles is...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Jan 15, 2020


When is crying a positive sign?
In 1993, I was a doctoral student at Vanderbilt University, Peabody College. I went there to study orientation and mobility (O&M) under...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Jan 8, 2020


To seek a Solution, First You Must Identify the Problem
Just this week I was once again asked by orientation and mobility Facebook group members, to once again prove the thesis that children...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Jan 1, 2020


How far have we come?
This black and white photo was published in New Outlook for the Blind in September 1967.The picture is of a preschooler boy who is blind...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Dec 11, 2019


Safe Toddles Boxing Video
We put together this video to show how much care and attention is paid to each wearable cane being packed for shipping. We have shipped...
Beaux Jettson
Nov 27, 2019


Before and after wearable cane
Your donations to Safe Toddles allow Akira to feel safe enough to learn Akira is three years old and blind. First photo: Akira was...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Nov 21, 2019


Consider Safe Toddles on Giving Tuesday
Since 2012, the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving had become Giving Tuesday. This year Giving Tuesday will be December 3, 2019. Facebook...
Beaux Jettson
Nov 20, 2019


Tactile path information explained
Cane users the world over will tell you, it isn’t “if” the butt of the long cane stabs you in the belly- it’s “when” it happens… What...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Nov 13, 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
Nov 6, 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 29, 2019


Persistent “cruising” and “wide-based gait” are signs of mobility visual impairment and blindness
It is commonly accepted that achievement of gross motor milestones varies across children. For example, the pictured milestone charts...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Oct 23, 2019


Persistent “cruising” and “wide-based gait” are signs of mobility visual impairment and blindness
It is commonly accepted that achievement of gross motor milestones varies across children. For example, the pictured milestone charts...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Oct 23, 2019


Cane arc transmission: Manual or automatic
The look of panic disappeared from the rental car agent’s face when I confirmed that, in fact, I was able to drive a car with a manual...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Oct 15, 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...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Oct 5, 2019


October is Equal Access to Path Information Month!
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the first proclamation declaring White Cane Safety Day in recognition of the passage of the...
Beaux Jettson
Oct 1, 2019


Kids need equal access to path information: A review of 2007 Study of a program for improving motor
Aki, Songül, Ayse and Kayihan (2007) tested motor skills of eight-year-old subjects with severe visual impairment before and after being...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Sep 26, 2019


Dr. Max Gomez to Air Story Tonight - CBS
New York Dr. Max Gomez will run the story of the toddler cane tonight - around 5:45PM on CBS New York and the link of the story will be...
Beaux Jettson
Mar 29, 2018
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