Orientation And Mobility Orientation And Mobility Orientation is the ability to use one's remaining senses to understand one's location in the environment at any given time.
Mobility is the capacity or facility of movement.
Orientation and mobility may be defined , then, as the teaching of the concepts, skills, and techniques necessary for a person with a visual impairment to travel safely , efficiently, and gracefully through any environment and under all environmental conditions and situations. By using sighted assistance, the students not only begin to accept help from others when a situation warrants it, but learn that they have control over a situation situation that they can ask appropriate questions about the immediate area they are walking through so they can come back to the area by themselves a another time. With older children, the instructor becomes the primary teacher and the parents monitor some techniques and provide encouragement, support, and follow-up training. In the schools, the classroom teacher, vision consultant, teacher's aide, and even a student's peers all reinforce the skills the student has acquired.