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Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Jun 16
Researchers AGAIN find poor skills in adults born blind with no mention of root cause: Life in a constant state of unsafe mobility
This 2023 study compared 209 adults with a mobility visual impairment or blindness (MVI/B) with sighted adults. The authors did not give...
Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Apr 13, 2020
CVI or MVI? Exploring the path to gross motor delays
In thirty minutes we see how a 3-year-old girl with CVI improves gross motor, language and cane skills.
Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Feb 20, 2020
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
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
Nov 6, 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
Oct 29, 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 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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