Latest Functional assessment Podcast Episodes
Ep 35 What is ARIA assistive tech? - Robert
RO&Ming with Lil - March 23, 2022 19:00 - 26 minutesRobert 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 novel soundscape for the user to interpret during activ...
34 O&M pathways to international development - Jo
RO&Ming with Lil - June 01, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutesJo 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 sustainable O&M services in Pacific Island countries.
33 Inventing the Stuart Tactile Maps test - Ian
RO&Ming with Lil - March 17, 2021 07:00 - 44 minutesOrientation 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 of spatial cognition that only takes 10 minutes to admini...
32 The Australian Leadership Paradox - Liz
RO&Ming with Lil - February 22, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutesHappy 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-author Geoff Aigner published a book called The Australia...
31 Guide dogs with wheelchairs and complex needs - Lee
RO&Ming with Lil - December 17, 2020 19:00 - 44 minutesLee 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 alert, or help to hear the doorbell, along with the guid...
30 Social navigation in the Pacific islands - Ben
RO&Ming with Lil - December 10, 2020 20:00 - 43 minutesBen 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 he has learned to build networks and travel confiden...
30 Social navigation in the Pacific islands - Ben
RO&Ming with Lil - December 10, 2020 20:00 - 43 minutesBen 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 he has learned to build networks and travel confiden...
29 Life skills for being-in-the-unseen-world - Errol
RO&Ming with Lil - December 03, 2020 17:00 - 44 minutesErrol 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 PhD in him waiting to get out? And what did he discover about the...
28 Learning life skills at blind and mainstream schools - Joe
RO&Ming with Lil - November 26, 2020 18:00 - 44 minutesJoe 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 Bachelor of Science (Computer Studies) at Flinders Univer...
27 Doing inner work - Peter
RO&Ming with Lil - November 19, 2020 18:00 - 44 minutesIn 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, priorities and agendas affect our relationships. Peter ...
26 Using the Enneagram to work on health - Jane
RO&Ming with Lil - November 12, 2020 20:00 - 40 minutesJane 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 and our relationship with other types at home and in ...
25 Doing a cultural audit in a toxic workplace - Tim
RO&Ming with Lil - November 05, 2020 19:00 - 42 minutesA 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 Dyer, organisational consultant, shows how a cultural a...
24 Embracing otherness with personality models - Tim
RO&Ming with Lil - October 29, 2020 21:00 - 44 minutesTim 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 are different to each other. Then you can raise your...
23 Creating an International O&M Online Symposium - Kassy
RO&Ming with Lil - October 22, 2020 09:00 - 39 minutesKassandra 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 it’s like to be tied to home with two babies during ...
22 Navigating the world of work - Bruce
RO&Ming with Lil - October 15, 2020 18:00 - 38 minutesThe 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, toxicity and tools for developing resilience in a time of ext...
21 Captivated by the CVI Range - Laura
RO&Ming with Lil - October 08, 2020 16:00 - 44 minutesLaura 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 response. Laura was desperate for resources that would gu...
20 Accessible adventures with Cocky Guides - Buck
RO&Ming with Lil - October 01, 2020 18:00 - 38 minutesCocky 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 with other keen travellers? Buck McFarlane guides us...
19 Independent O&M in Kiribati - Jess
RO&Ming with Lil - September 24, 2020 20:00 - 43 minutesJess 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 Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean. Kiribati (population 110,000...
19 Independent O&M in Kiribati - Jess
RO&Ming with Lil - September 24, 2020 20:00 - 43 minutesJess 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 Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean. Kiribati (population 110,000...
18 VROOM and OMO with an international jetsetter - Meredith
RO&Ming with Lil - September 17, 2020 15:00 - 44 minutesDr 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 functional vision and 41/50 for orientation and mobili...
17 Accessing street corners with 3D printing - Leona
RO&Ming with Lil - September 10, 2020 19:00 - 39 minutesThis 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 blindness. She is currently developing guidelines for 3D p...
16 CVI through the eyes of an orthoptist - Natalia
RO&Ming with Lil - September 03, 2020 23:00 - 42 minutesNatalia 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, Vision Matters, Natalia does specialised work usin...
15 Bears, snow and earthquakes - Alana
RO&Ming with Lil - August 27, 2020 19:00 - 33 minutesAlana 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 people. She learned to call a cane a stick, fall down sa...
14 Fostering professional development - Darren
RO&Ming with Lil - August 20, 2020 20:00 - 34 minutesThis 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 a dad himself. Darren describes some of his Aha! moments in...
13 Toddling with CVI - Luka, Heidi and Bronwen
RO&Ming with Lil - August 13, 2020 18:00 - 43 minutesToday 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 past 18 months to help develop his functional vision in...
12 Co-rating COVID isolation - Ross and Josh
RO&Ming with Lil - August 06, 2020 20:00 - 44 minutesFour 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 and has been in COVID isolation with his household a...
11 Co-rating wee bairns with VROOM and OMO - Lisa
RO&Ming with Lil - July 30, 2020 18:00 - 43 minutesLisa 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 have been piloting the VROOM and OMO functional assessment ...
10 Aha! moments with VROOM and OMO - Diana
RO&Ming with Lil - July 23, 2020 15:00 - 43 minutesDiana Grobler works in northern New South Wales, serving orientation and mobility clients across a large region. She has many older clients with macular degeneration who love to chat. Diana is a relative newbie in the O&M field, but she has done 12 or 13 VROOM and OMO assessments this year, both...
9 Comparisons and Precision with VROOM and OMO
RO&Ming with Lil - July 16, 2020 15:00 - 37 minutesIn Episode 5 we did a did a VROOM and OMO assessment with Erica Tandori, who scored 29/50 for her functional vision and 39/50 for her functional mobility. Erica chooses not to use a mobility aid most of the time, relying on her peripheral vision and fabulous mental mapping skills to maintain her...
8 Choosing environmental complexity in VROOM and OMO assessments
RO&Ming with Lil - July 09, 2020 20:00 - 42 minutesOrientation and Mobility (O&M) textbooks talk about indoor and outdoor travel skills. Outdoor places are usually classified according to their purpose or zoning – residential, semi-business and business environments, petrol stations and shopping centres. However, environmental purpose doesn’t ne...
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