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Toddlers who are blind need effective mobility tools for safe mobility, because safe self-locomotion skills are essential for language...

Children who are unable to visually detect obstacles, drop-offs, and changes in surface have a mobility visual impairment (MVI)...

Justine McBride, M.S.Ed., TVI & Grace Ambrose-Zaken Children with mobility visual impairment (MVI) are unable to visually avoid...

In thirty minutes we see how a 3-year-old girl with CVI improves gross motor, language and cane skills.

I was riding on the subway on Monday, November 3, 2014 mulling over the needs of children with visual impairment and blindness. The early...

We too are worried with the world about the Covid-19 epidemic and we are sincerely hoping for a speedy cure. We have faith in and are...

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...

What happens when a driver takes her eyes off the road? When she looks up she might jerk her head back and quickly turn the steering...

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...

Raison d’etre. Pediatric belt canes dramatically improve the lives of children who are mobility visually impaired or blind (MVI/B)....

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...

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...

The first known, dedicated wheelchair was invented in 1595 for Phillip II of Spain. By 1956, motorized wheelchairs were being mass...

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

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

Just this week I was once again asked by orientation and mobility Facebook group members, to once again prove the thesis that children...

1967 photo of preschooler who is blind and his teacher In a black-and-white photograph published in New Outlook for the Blind  in September 1967, a preschool boy who is blind walks forward while his teacher bends over behind him, smiling. She holds both of his hands above his shoulders as he leads the way. It’s a tender image—yet troubling. The child’s head is bowed; he can’t see where they’re going. By holding both of his hands, the teacher leaves him unable to protect his b

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...

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