Mobility aids

Mobility Aids for the visually impaired or Blind are tools that enable them to successfully navigate around differing environments. They can range from a long cane for detecting obsticles, a Guide or seeing eye dog for avoiding obsticles to more modern assistive mobility aids such as the KSonar, a device that uses Ultra sonic technology to assist the user the determine the position of elements of their environment to GPS solutions such as the Trekker to Way Finder Access to enable visually impaired to plot routes to destinations. Mobility aids range in effectiveness and versatility and the choice of what mobility aid to utilize is very user specific. For that reason, this page will demonstrate a number of the mobility aids available.