Celebrating Innovation: Pediatric Belt Canes produce improved motor & developmental outcomes for DeafBlind children.
Just as the white cane transformed travel for blind adults in 1945, the innovation of the Pediatric Belt Cane in 2017 has transformed Orientation & Mobility (O&M) for children with a mobility visual impairment or blindness (MVI/B). This webinar will include the results of multiple research studies on more than 800 children with an MVI/B who demonstrated significant improvement in gait, pace, and amount of physical activity once they began wearing their easy-to-use independent white cane arc.
Please join us at 4:30 pm on Tuesday, November 18, 2025:
https://ufl.zoom.us/j/98176400370?pwd=2CciDpVRZGrgbh48aoDVjtfqC0XrLQ.1
Dr. Grace Ambrose-Zaken’s team has researched toddlers’ reliance on touch feedback for balance, protection, and environmental information. Pediatric Belt Cane research has demonstrated significantly-improved outcomes for children with dual sensory impairments, including toddlers with CHARGE syndrome and children with CVI. Dr. Ambrose-Zaken will share videos and findings that support belt cane use by deafblind children, students with vision loss plus developmental delay, and students with multiple disabilities that include visual impairment.
Dr. Grace Ambrose-Zaken is president, CEO and co-founder of the nonprofit Safe Toddles. Dr. Ambrose-Zaken is a retired professor of orientation and mobility (O&M); she led the O&M program at Hunter College of The City University of New York from 1997-2022. In 2014, she invented the Pediatric Belt Cane. She has published 30 peer-reviewed articles, three textbook chapters, including her groundbreaking research outcomes on the Pediatric Belt Cane.