This residential is delivered as a four day short-stay program and is suitable if you have a current program with an O&M. This residential covers sighted guide techniques, pre cane skills including direction taking and body protection as well as indoor independent travel skills and trailing and squaring off. Over the course of the week you will be introduced to and be able to put into practice long cane techniques, quiet residential travel, semi-business area travel and grocery store travel.

This residential is delivered as a four day short-stay program and acts as the extension to the Foundations program. This residential program covers a review of long cane techniques and orientation skills, residential travel and road crossing techniques. The program then introduces the advanced topics of public transport and includes outings both locally and into the CBD using public transport. Other topics covered include fatigue management and introduction to Assistive Technology.

This residential is delivered as a four day short-stay program and provides an opportunity for Participants with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) (and functional effect of night blindness) to meet with others that have RP to practice getting around more unfamiliar environments at night. The “Getting About at Night” residential will provide you with a variety of relevant and practical information including the latest research about RP, ‘keeping safe on your feet’, modern O&M technology available (GPS etc.), information about applying for a Guide Dog and O&M skills required for night travel. The “Getting About at Night” residential will provide provide you with opportunities to discuss your own individual needs and enable them to develop your confidence travelling at night. Includes outings to the CBD as well as social dinners and other group social activities.

This residential is delivered as a three short-stay day program. This program aims to educate you on listening/ spatial exercises, audio beacons and outdoor ball activities. You will learn to put into practice skills of locating and tacking as well as alignment to a traffic ramp and correction of veer at uncontrolled crossings and driveways. An introduction to echolocation will be delivered by the O&M as well as tactile mapping and orientation cues in public spaces such as a shopping centre.

This residential is delivered as a four day short-stay program. This program has been developed to enable you to learn to live in a more accessible way. During the program, a team qualified Occupational Therapists and Assistive Tech Specialists work with you to help you master daily living tasks, such as cooking, laundry and working with technology. Our team of Allied Health professionals will support you to learn simple strategies to help with these everyday tasks whilst working together with other participants to share ideas! Over the course of the program there will also be opportunities to engage in social activities with the other participants.

This residential is delivered as a four day short-stay program and aims to address grief as it pertains to a your vision loss. Through shared dialogue under the guidance of a Psychologist, you will develop collaborative strategies to help cope with your vision loss and to gain enhanced social and emotional connections with others. This program also includes social outings and activities for one of the days as well as collaborative input and teachings from an Occupational Therapist.