Balanced, Protected, and Informed O&M for Active Daily Living

We are pleased to share that the Safe Toddles 2025 Impact Report is now available. This year’s report highlights the progress our community has made together in expanding mobility, safety, and independence for children with a mobility visual impairment or blindness.

History of O&M describes the long, slow, tortured road of retro-fitting adult long canes and O&M methods for children.

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.