RO&Ming with Lil

ROaMing with Lil is for people who do their best work on street corners – orientation and mobility specialists, guide dog mobility instructors and people with low vision or blindness. It provides a forum for people to learn more about functional vision, orientation and mobility from an Australian perspective. The first season is focusing on tele-practice, and functional assessment, using the VROOM and OMO tools with clients.

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5 A co-rating conversation with Erica - Interview only

Erica Tandori is a visual artist with two kids, a cat, a hole in the backyard, a doctorate, a university job, and Stargardt’s Disease. This juvenile form of macular degeneration means that Erica has trouble seeing what she is looking at directly, but her peripheral vision is still useful. Erica describes it as colourful, soft and blurry like “living in a Monet painting,” with the occasional visual hallucination to keep her guessing. Erica has not had orientation and mobility training, but she wa...

Jun 18, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 5

4 Using VROOM and OMO for the first time - in telepractice

Jo Anson-Smith is a dual qualified Occupational Therapist/Orientation and Mobility (O&M) Specialist working in Newcastle, Australia. When we talked with Jo in Episode 2, she was exploring tele-practice with occupational therapy clients, but she hadn’t yet made the leap into O&M tele-practice. In this episode we talk with Jo about teaching the long cane to a man with intellectual disability, via Zoom. Then Jo describes her first VROOM and OMO functional assessment with a client, via FaceT...

Jun 11, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 4

3 What are the VROOM and OMO tools?

This episode introduces VROOM and OMO – two functional assessment tools created by an O&M specialist who loves ridiculous acronyms. VROOM stands for vision-related outcomes in orientation and mobility, and OMO stands for orientation and mobility outcomes. These are constructivist (not objective or subjective) assessment tools designed to co-rate a client’s functional vision and mobility, giving each a score out of 50. We meet Ewa Borkowski from Guide Dogs NSW/ACT, whose team is using the VRO...

Jun 05, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 3

2 Working from the COVID cave

This podcast is recorded in the time of Coronavirus lockdown, when Orientation and Mobility (O&M) specialists are fast needing to learn about tele-practice. We meet four O&M specialists from Guide Dogs NSW/ACT who are venturing into the brave new world of O&M tele-practice: Amy McKibbins, Zoë Gephart, Tayler McBrien, and Jo Anson-Smith

May 27, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 2

1 Welcome to RO&Ming with Lil

This episode introduces ROaMing with Lil . It describes the role of an Orientation and Mobility Specialist, and a profession that does its best work on street corners! ROaMing with Lil is intended to provide a forum for people to learn more about functional vision, and orientation and mobility practice from an Australian perspective. It offers professional development for O&M specialists and guide dog mobility instructors worldwide.

May 27, 2020•5 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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