Latest Functional assessment Podcast Episodes

7 Measuring Mel's ups and downs with VROOM and OMO

RO&Ming with Lil - July 02, 2020 15:00 - 43 minutes
Mel Stephens is an independent 26 year old, horse-loving train tragic with no light perception and an addiction to cruises. Mel was a research participant in the Bionic Vision Australia project in 2013, so she was there at the inception and birth of the VROOM and OMO functional assessment tools....

6 What do the VROOM and OMO numbers mean?

RO&Ming with Lil - June 25, 2020 15:00 - 33 minutes
In this episode, Jo Anson-Smith, an orientation and mobility specialist from Newcastle, reports the VROOM and OMO scores for the client she assessed through tele-practice a few weeks ago. Let’s call him Ken. We also revisit Erica Tandori’s VROOM and OMO results from last episode. I explain how w...

5 A co-rating conversation with Erica - Interview only

RO&Ming with Lil - June 18, 2020 07:00 - 44 minutes
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 ...

Using VROOM and OMO for the first time - in telepractice

RO&Ming with Lil - June 11, 2020 15:00 - 38 minutes
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...

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

RO&Ming with Lil - June 11, 2020 15:00 - 38 minutes
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...

3 What are the VROOM and OMO tools?

RO&Ming with Lil - June 05, 2020 05:00 - 32 minutes
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 ...

Working from the COVID cave

RO&Ming with Lil - May 27, 2020 16:00 - 34 minutes
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 G...

2 Working from the COVID cave

RO&Ming with Lil - May 27, 2020 16:00 - 34 minutes
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 G...

Welcome to RO&Ming with Lil

RO&Ming with Lil - May 27, 2020 16:00 - 4 minutes
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 pr...

1 Welcome to RO&Ming with Lil

RO&Ming with Lil - May 27, 2020 15:00 - 4 minutes
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 pr...