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Building Your Orientation and Mobility Toolkit

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Everyone should have the opportunity to achieve independence, and we know that achieving independence through Orientation and Mobility (O&M) is integral for people of all ages. Whether you’re working with students who are just getting started or are practiced at traveling with a guide dog or cane, our O&M products support all learners on their journey.

 

  • Code & Go Mouse: This kit provides an hands-on introduction to coding concepts and tactile graphics as students program Colby the mouse to race through the maze toward the cheese.

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  • Code Quest: A FREE interactive and accessible iPad app that teaches players coding, logic, and orientation skills.
  • Laptime and Lullabies: Storybooks: The storybooks Butterflies and Where’s Little Fuzzy? teach beginning O&M skills by reinforcing directions (up, down, under, on top, inside, outside, open vs. closed) and textures.
  • Going to the Playground, iOS App and Overlays: This free app helps young children, ages 3-5, learn orientation directions, such as left and right, in and out, and up and down as they become familiar with the layout of a virtual playground.

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  • Color Raceway Kit: Color Raceway is an exciting board game adapted for children who have visual impairments, including those with a CVI diagnosis. The kit utilizes the characteristics of color, movement, and low to high complexity, encouraging players to use their vision in a functional and fun way.
  • O&M Trivia: Available through Amazon Alexa® and the Google Assistant, O&M Trivia is a fun way to learn and reinforce orientation and mobility knowledge for people of all ages.
  • O&M Family Booklet Software: CD-ROM and Digital Download: Customize a family booklet about your student’s Orientation and Mobility.
  • Step-By-Step Part 1: This updated edition of the popular Step-By-Step (a comprehensive curriculum providing instructions and demonstrations of how to perform mobility techniques) includes new techniques and information, all available digitally in the form of two flash drives!
  • Step-By-Step Part 2: This edition includes the interactive videos and Study and Review Guides for the following modules: Long Cane Techniques, Street Crossing Techniques, Transportation Techniques, and Environment Specific Technique, along with the Introduction & Appendices, User Guide for Flash Drive Videos, and the Prerequisite Matrix.
  • Crossings with No Traffic Control: Through logical, sequenced teaching approaches, independent travelers who have low vision will learn to analyze and navigate uncontrolled street crossings.
  • Tactile Town: This interactive 3-D model teaches spatial concepts and cognitive mapping skills by helping students perceive and organize their physical environment specific to concepts like street layouts, intersections, route patterns, and city block arrangements.
  • Picture Maker Wheatley Tactile Diagramming Kit: create maps, charts, shapes, and your own tactile masterpieces.

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  • Tactile Graphics Kit: This kit is an extensive set of tools and materials that allow teachers, transcribers, and mobility instructors to create custom raised-line maps, graphs, diagrams, and charts.
  • Portable Sound Source: Sport Edition: Create audio tones that provide directional cues for orientation and mobility, sound localization training, or for playground games and sports.

 

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