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Grace Ambrose-Zaken
May 19, 2024
Levy & Gilbert, Two Innovative Blind Leaders in Vision Rehabilitation
William Hanks Levy and Elizabeth Gilbert invented the long cane technique constant contact for blind adults in 1872.

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Oct 14, 2021
Origin Story and Impact White Cane Safety Day
Co-hosts of the Safe Toddles Pediatric Belt Cane podcast, Grace Ambrose-Zaken and Kelvin Crosby, discuss the origin story and impact of...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
May 22, 2020
Wearing pediatric belt canes encourages independent walking in Blind 2-year-old
Toddlers who are blind need effective mobility tools for safe mobility, because safe self-locomotion skills are essential for language...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
May 6, 2020
Benefits of Belt Cane for 3-year-old with Optic Nerve Hypoplasia
Justine McBride, M.S.Ed., TVI & Grace Ambrose-Zaken Children with mobility visual impairment (MVI) are unable to visually avoid...


Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Mar 3, 2020
Comparing visual and tactile path preview
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...


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
Dec 11, 2019
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
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 15, 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 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...

Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Sep 26, 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...
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