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.
Episodes
35 episodes
Ep 35 What is ARIA assistive tech? - Robert
Robert Yearsley is CEO of ARIA Research, which stands for Augmented Reality in Audio. ARIA is a new approach to assistive technology being developed with, and for people who are blind. ARIA uses machine learning to turn camera vision into a nov...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 35
•
26:50
34 O&M pathways to international development - Jo
Jo Webber is a disability inclusion advisor, currently working in Kiribati and Vanuatu. For those interested in international work, Jo challenges us become dual qualified in international development so that we can work with others to create su...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 34
•
39:29
33 Inventing the Stuart Tactile Maps test - Ian
Orientation is the vital O in O&M and we might assume that everyone can learn orientation, but this is not the case. How can we assess a person’s ability to learn orientation to new places? The Stuart Tactile Maps test is a table top test o...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 33
•
44:59
32 The Australian Leadership Paradox - Liz
Happy new year, in late February! In this first episode for 2021, I have a dream... and I’m talking with Liz Skelton, who also has a vision for an equitable and inclusive society where people, place, and planet thrive. In 2013, Liz and co-autho...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 32
•
44:26
31 Guide dogs with wheelchairs and complex needs - Lee
Lee Stanway is a Guide Dog Mobility Instructor based in the UK who specialises in tricky dog matches. He works with people who have low vision or blindness and use a wheelchair, or need assistance with tasks around the home, or an epilepsy aler...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 31
•
44:53
30 Social navigation in the Pacific islands - Ben
Ben Clare is an inclusive education adviser, scholarship facilitator, and regular visitor to the Pacific Islands, having also lived in the Solomon Islands and Samoa for several years. Ben has no light perception and some spatial challenges, so ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 30
•
43:57
29 Life skills for being-in-the-unseen-world - Errol
Errol Ingram is an O&M Specialist who completed a PhD thesis in 2019 called The Lived Experience of Acquiring Life Skills with Congenital Total Blindness: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. How did Errol realise he had a ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 29
•
44:14
28 Learning life skills at blind and mainstream schools - Joe
Joe Stephen is a blind software developer from Adelaide, now living in Tasmania. He has written an article reflecting on his experience starting at a blind primary school, then moving into mainstream secondary schools, before completing a Bache...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 28
•
44:21
27 Doing inner work - Peter
In Orientation and Mobility practice, it is a privilege to hear and hold another person’s story as we hatch a plan of action together. But we can crash around in other people’s lives if we don’t pause to understand how our own expectations, pri...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 27
•
44:54
26 Using the Enneagram to work on health - Jane
Jane Bradley is a Seeing Eye Dog Instructor and a self-confessed behaviour nerd, interested in how learning works across the species. We discuss the Enneagram personality model. The Enneagram can be used to understand our own personality type a...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 26
•
40:28
25 Doing a cultural audit in a toxic workplace - Tim
A toxic workplace makes people sick, and when we recognise this problem we need to do something about it. Morale spirals downwards, physical symptoms increase, mental health suffers, people leave, wounded, and the workforce is depleted. Tim Dye...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 25
•
42:11
24 Embracing otherness with personality models - Tim
Tim Dyer is an organisational consultant based in Tasmania. Twenty years ago, Tim came to my mums’ group and said, “If you learn a personality model – it doesn’t really matter which one – it gives you a common language to understand how people ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 24
•
44:55
23 Creating an International O&M Online Symposium - Kassy
Kassandra Maloney is a Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist (COMS), living in Austin, Texas. After working at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired for 11 years, she set out solo as Allied Independence. Kassy knows what ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 23
•
39:10
22 Navigating the world of work - Bruce
The O&M profession in Australia is in the midst of a revolution and some O&M specialists are feeling the pinch. This is the first in a series of episodes looking more closely at the world of work. We’ll be discussing workplace health, t...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 22
•
38:24
21 Captivated by the CVI Range - Laura
Laura Garcia is mum to Eva, now aged 8. When she was one year old, Eva contracted herpes simplex virus, which passed the blood-brain barrier and damaged Eva’s visual cortex. The result was CVI – cortical visual impairment – with no visual respo...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 21
•
44:43
20 Accessible adventures with Cocky Guides - Buck
Cocky Guides is a small group tour company, based in Sydney, specialising in accessible adventures for people with low vision or blindness. Why wait for people who are sight-seeing when you can try hang-gliding, go sailing or tour the wineries ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 20
•
38:36
19 Independent O&M in Kiribati - Jess
Jess Timmons is an independent Orientation and Mobility (O&M) Specialist who also works as a disability support worker and access consultant in Melbourne. In 2019 she volunteered to accompany an independent consultant with low vision to Kir...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 19
•
43:13
18 VROOM and OMO with an international jetsetter - Meredith
Dr Meredith Prain is a speech pathologist who works with people who have deafblindness and she travels internationally on her own. She has low vision from Leber’s so was curious to discover her own VROOM and OMO scores. Merry rated 32/50 for fu...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 18
•
44:16
17 Accessing street corners with 3D printing - Leona
This week we meet Leona Holloway from Monash University. Leona entered the world of braille transcription straight after uni and is now a passionate advocate of inclusive technologies and accessible graphics for people with low vision or blindn...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 17
•
39:54
16 CVI through the eyes of an orthoptist - Natalia
Natalia Kelly is an orthoptist from Melbourne who was captivated by cortical visual impairment (CVI) from the start of her career 17 years ago. Since then, the scope of practice for orthoptists has expanded in Australia. In her private practice...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 16
•
42:40
15 Bears, snow and earthquakes - Alana
Alana Bogart is an O&M specialist from Canada who now works for Blind Low Vision New Zealand. Alana takes us on a journey into the snow-bound villages and islands of British Columbia at minus 25 degrees, where she worked with First Nations ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 15
•
33:25
14 Fostering professional development - Darren
This episode, we’re talking with Darren Moyle, an O&M Specialist who works for Vision Australia in Melbourne. Darren has a passion for integrating sport and technology into O&M programs. He loves working with kids and he has just become...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 14
•
34:37
13 Toddling with CVI - Luka, Heidi and Bronwen
Today we meet Bronwen Scott and Heidi Zec. Bronwen is an independent Orientation and Mobility Specialist and Heidi is the mother of Luka, a delightful two year old with cortical visual impairment. They have worked together with Luka for the pas...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 13
•
43:53
12 Co-rating COVID isolation - Ross and Josh
Four years ago, traveling independently in inner city Melbourne, Ross de Vent scored VROOM 14/50 for his functional vision (Fragments), and OMO 33/50 for his functional mobility (Capable). Ross now lives on the fringe of metropolitan Melbourne ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 12
•
44:57
11 Co-rating wee bairns with VROOM and OMO - Lisa
Lisa Petrie is an Habilitation Specialist with Guide Dogs UK, based in Scotland. Lisa enjoys working with children who have complex needs, and she also manages O&M services for adults, children and young people (CYP). Lisa and her teams hav...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 11
•
43:55