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RO&Ming with Lil9 Comparisons and Precision with VROOM and OMOIn 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 orientation and her safety on familiar routes like the public transport trip to work. But Erica likes to take an arm when walking in less familiar places. This frees up her vision to look around and enjoy what she sees. The co-rating conversation with Erica has raised questions about...2020-07-1637 minRO&Ming with Lil6 What do the VROOM and OMO numbers mean?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 we can interpret these results in 10 point categories, with F words for VROOM categories and C words for OMO categories. Jo explains some of her decision-making challenges in using these assessment tools, and we explore the implications of mid-range low vision – the Formwork category – where Ken and Erica see linear s...2020-06-2533 minRO&Ming with Lil5 A co-rating conversation with Erica - Interview onlyErica 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 describes it as colourful, soft and blurry like “living in a Monet painting,” with the occasional visual hallucination to keep her guessing. Erica has not had orientation and mobility training, but she was interested in doing a VROOM and OMO assessment via interview. We discussed the environments where Erica...2020-06-1844 min