Ensight Skills Center & Curtis Strong Center for the Visually Impaired

Orientation and Mobility

Orientation & Mobility Program

A Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist (COMS) provides sequential instruction to individuals with visual impairment in the use of their remaining senses to determine their position within the environment and in techniques for safe movement from one place to another. The skills involved in this instruction include but are not limited to:

·       Concept Development, which includes body image, spatial, temporal, positional, directional and environmental concepts.

·       Motor Development, including motor skills needed for balance, posture, and gait, as well as the use of adaptive devices and techniques to assist those with multiple disabilities. 

·       Sensory Development, which includes visual, auditory, vestibular, kinesthetic, tactile, olfactory, and proprioceptive senses, and the interrelationships of these systems.

·       Residual vision stimulation and training