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JournalSpotting#29 BTS Winter Conference Feb 2021 Part 2. Air Pollution + EnvironmentThis is part 2 of our BTS Winter 2021 special.The JournalSpotters packed their virtual backpacks and headed to the British Thoracic Society’s Winter Conference 2021. This a huge international conference, covering all things lung.We've brought together some of the best speakers along with some new JournalSpotters to bring you all the best update and pearls from the conference. In part 2 we cover:Air pollution and the havoc it is causing in the UK, in Africa and in the World. We discuss the cost of the NHS amongst all this, particularly focusing on...2021-02-2231 min
RO&Ming with Lil8 Choosing environmental complexity in VROOM and OMO assessmentsOrientation 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 necessarily tell us about complexity. It can be easier to cross at the traffic lights in the city than an uncontrolled residential road. The O&M Environmental Complexity Scale provides a way to think about the aspects of complexity that matter to clients. We can use it to rough-sort any environment in the world into one of six levels without gett...2020-07-0942 min
RO&Ming with Lil2 Working from the COVID caveThis 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 Gephart, Tayler McBrien, and Jo Anson-Smith2020-05-2734 min