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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 20, 2020


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


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


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


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


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
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