Safe Toddles

08/18/2024

Dr. Enzenauer - Chief Medical advisor of Safe Toddles and the reason we’re showing our results at medical conferences!!

04/02/2024

Blind Children need more tactile contact with the world, than a sighted child. They use hand holding to travel more efficiently.

04/02/2024

The picture shows a two-year-old girl with a mobility visual impairment (MVI) independently reaching the top of a cushion stair playscape wearing her Pediatric Belt Cane. Her mom stood back and took the video (gone viral on our TikTok channel) of her baby enjoying a climbing challenge to reach the slide, and then running off with a friend to do it again.

This meme says, "Every parent knows it is never too early for safe mobility. It is natural for a blind toddler to fear walking independently with only their two feet in contact with their world.

They try in every way to motivate their child to walk without holding on to them. This strategy is doomed to fail because it relies on their babies developing the ability to navigate without any protection whatsoever.

Safe Mobility is essential to infants with MVI/B learning to walk and toddlers and preschoolers with MVI/B learning to play.

Donate Pediatric Belt Canes for Early safe mobility."

The history of early intervention for infants with MVI/B is important to understand. Safe Toddles blog series available on our website makes the case that it is lack of proper safety provided to infants with MVI/B that creates the deficits parents and professionals struggle with daily.

We encourage parents to hold their children's hands - we made a tribute video using Beatles' song, I want to hold your hand! on our YouTube channel . When you hold your blind baby's hand you increase their understanding of the world around them - you are an amazingly helpful point of contact!

When you add the Belt Cane - you increase their amount of contact with the floor and surrounding environment and you also protect them.

04/01/2024

Pictured 17-month-old twins. One sighted, one blind. One walking, one who took his first 12 steps once he felt safe.

04/01/2024

The Stoop Storytelling Series, Maryland and DC Deafblind Project
presented See Beyond: Stories about dismantling the disability narrative. to listen to the contributors go to The Stoop Storytelling Series,

The Stoop Storytelling Series, in partnership with The Maryland School for the Blind, presents “See Beyond: Dismantling the Disability Narrative“.

03/30/2024

In 2016 the first prototype Belt Cane succeeded - 2017, the first 3-D prototype succeeded and now Belt Canes are helping children in 38 countries - HOLD YOUR CHILD's HAND and let them wear a Belt Cane - Blind kids need MORE contact with the world than just their 2 feet!! we listen to Blind Babies - they are smart enough to know how to get about their world safely and independently!!

03/30/2024

20th Century
The 1900s was a time of revolutionary inventions. Inventions in the early 1900s included the radio and phonograph, devices used to teach, entertain, and inform graduates of residential schools for the blind. The telephone, steam engine, electricity, the light bulb, computers, cell phones, long canes and ROCKET SHIPS TO THE MOON were all invented in the 1900s…just no device for keeping blind babies safe.

03/30/2024

Inventions in the 1800s included the typewriter, a device immensely important to students of residential schools for the blind to independently write print. The telephone, steam engine, electricity, and the light bulb were all invented in the 1800s, just no device for keeping blind babies safe.

03/30/2024

History of EI/O&M part 1: The piano was invented in the 1700s, and in the 1800s students at residential schools for the blind were taught to play professionally or to be piano tuners. In the 1700s, Ben Franklin invented bi-focal eyeglasses for people whose vision could be corrected with lenses. Yet, in the 1700s, learned men who were blind could not even conceive of the idea that one should make a safety device to protect blind babies when they moved about freely.

03/30/2024

Excerpt from History of EI/O&M on Safe Toddles Blog... In every prior century, adults did not appear to value the importance blind children placed on being in contact with their world. At the most basic level, this contact is an act of self-preservation, holding on to a parent is a more efficient and a safer way to walk. Children with MVI/B prefer to remain connected to objects even when standing still. Yet, adults insist blind children can only be made strong and whole by sending them through the gauntlet of house, yard, and community exposed, unaware, and unprotected. Orientation and Mobility Specialist Association - OMSA Orientation and Mobility Specialists National Organization of Parents of Blind Children - NOPBC Cal State L.A. O&M Program University of Kentucky Visual Impairment Program AER Orientation and Mobility Division

Safe Toddles is a nonprofit our mission is to provide parents with a white cane solution for keeping their blind toddlers safe as they explore to learn.

03/27/2024

Infants with MVI/B need more contact with the world - they need a white cane solution. The is a medically necessary device. Parents of blind infants continue to struggle not knowing the good news! Leads the Way to learning! Shout it from the roof tops! Let no stone be unturned, get the word out!

After watching your recent video going to Wisconsin Dell - I just wanted to say; I hope you can do more travel and all the fun things...