Below is a short video describing the contents of the measuring kit. The first step in obtaining a wearable cane is to send us the caliper, waist and height to shoulder.

This video captures the first time Caleb, a two and a half year old with severe visual impairment and challenged with balance difficulty due to missing semi-circular canals, put on his toddler cane and immediately took his first five steps without support. Caleb's first 5 steps taken unsupported surprised his mother and therapists so much they all broke out in tears of joy. Caleb is also shown proudly carrying a basketball down the hall. His therapist maintains contact with his shirt, yet he appears to be supporting his ambulation. Caleb changes in front of our eyes and ears as he becomes more focused and active in his surroundings. The final scene shows him impulsively (like a 2 year old) hopping off a bench to chase after a giant red ball. The positive results documented in this video; are what occurs when toddlers with visual impairment wear their white cane which provides them with safe mobility, an essential element vital to achieving developmental milestones. #toddlercanes #toddlercanefirsts

NEW YORK Dr. Grace Ambrose-Zaken kicked off California Association of Orientation and Mobility Specialist (CAOMS) first online professional development for its membership. According to Nicholas Casias, COMS organizer of the event, the CAOMS membership voted in favor of the Toddler App and Cane TAC system to be their inaugural online professional development offering. Dr Ambrose-Zaken, spoke for an hour connecting the dots between toddlers with visual impairment, unsafe mobility, and their risk for acquiring developmental delays in motor, concepts, language and social skills. The toddler cane is not about teaching a skill like syncopated cane arc, Ambrose-Zaken said, it is about increasing the percentage of safe mobility for a child with visual impairment. When toddlers who are blind walk without tactile next step warning, their percentage of safe mobility is zero. Wearing the toddler cane increases safe mobility to above 90%. The CAOMS membership had one question, "how do we get one?" I love that question, because it means our O&M specialists came to the meeting in search of solutions to problems they have already identified. The answer is, contact us on the website, as soon as we cane we'll mail a measurement kit and create a custom cane. There is a waiting list for testing the prototype. We hope that we will have a commercial-ready toddler app and cane system in two years. Image of a little girl wearing the current toddler cane prototype. #toddlercane #blindtoddlers #safemobility

NEW YORK Dr. Max Gomez Health reporter for the CBS New York news affiliate (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/tag/dr-max-gomez/) obtained the exclusive story of the toddler cane. The first wearable white cane for toddlers who are severely visually impaired and blind. Dr. Gomez traveled to Brooklyn to interview key players of the Hunter College, City University and Safe Toddles team. Dr. Grace Ambrose-Zaken, Karen Dunlap and her daughter Léa who is three and has cortical visual impairment (CVI), and Mohamad FallahRad, City College engineering graduate student who worked closely with Biomedical Engineering Professor and co-Founder Marom Bikson to translate Ambrose's homemade device into the current functioning toddler cane prototype. The interview took place in Karen's home in Brooklyn. Dr. Gomez and Léa became fast friends, as he succeeded in obtaining genuine giggles of delight, something I had never heard before. Photos courtesy Benny Zaken It was Safe Toddles' first television press ever, said Hunter College professor/Founder and CEO of Safe Toddles Dr. Grace Ambrose-Zaken. Dr. Gomez was so wonderful, he really helped me relax as I attempted to explain the need for toddler canes. Dr. Max Gomez is a well-known neurosurgeon who well understood Lea's CVI, a brain-based visual impairment. Karen explained, it is important to help others to understand that even though her daughter might "look sighted", her visual impairment is significant. Her eyes are perfectly beautiful blue, but due to a stroke just after birth, her brain has difficulty interpreting and comprehending the signals sent from her eyes. Léa demonstrated using the toddler cane outside on her sidewalk. It is hard to know how much it is helping, unless you see her without it, Karen remarked. Without it, Léa bends over to see the ground, which really affects her balance. When wearing the toddler cane she walks upright-like everybody else. Dr. Max Gomez said the toddler cane segment may air as early as next week. Stay tuned!! #DrMaxGomes #CBSNewYork #toddlercane #HunterCollege