Building Your Orientation and Mobility Toolkit

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

APH Press Books

• Foundations of Orientation and Mobility, 3^rd, Volumes 1 and 2: This classic professional reference and textbook has been completely revised and expanded into two volumes by the most knowledgeable experts in the field.
• Partners in O&M: Supporting Orientation and Mobility for Students Who Are Visually Impaired: This resource reflects innovative thinking in teaching O&M to children, provides a solid O&M foundation for future O&M specialists, and addresses concepts and strategies other professionals need to know to reinforce O&M skills.

• Orientation and Mobility Techniques: A Guide for the Practitioner, 2^nd Edition: An easy-to-read color format, accompanying photographs, updated information on street crossings at complex intersections, and a new chapter on O&M for people with low vision make this revised edition a must-have in your O&M library.
• O&M for Independent Living: Strategies for Teaching Orientation and Mobility to Older Adults: This book is an important guide for orientation and mobility instructors, rehabilitation specialists, occupational therapists, and other professionals who work with adults who may be new to vision loss.
• The Art and Science of Teaching Orientation and Mobility to Persons with Visual Impairments, 2^nd Edition: This book details orientation and mobility techniques and explains how to provide effective instruction in one complete manual for the beginning O&M instructor and is a reference for the experienced practitioner as well.
• Basic Spanish for Orientation and Mobility: A Phrase Book and Dictionary: This book is a valuable, user-friendly tool for communicating O&M instruction to students who primarily speak Spanish.
• Imagining the Possibilities: Creative Approaches to Orientation and Mobility Instruction for Persons Who Are Visually Impaired: This book is a hands-on teaching resource for pre-service and practicing O&M specialists.

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