OMAA Conference 2025

Independent And Working Together

Live and in person OMAA Conference 2025 in Sydney, on 14-15 March 2025 at the Macquarie University campus, Australian Hearing Hub.

Attention

The countdown is on, and Early Bird Registrations have now closed!

Do you want to hear what our O&M Australasian community has been up to?

Don’t miss your chance to be part of this impactful gathering. Secure your spot today and take part in shaping a more inclusive future for our profession in Australasia.

Registration

Registration can be completed by visiting the NextSense website.

Conference Exhibitors & Sponsors

Exhibitors and sponsors can register here.

Program Announcement

The Conference 2025 Program is now available! Click here to access the full program.

This two-day conference provides evidence and experience-based presentations for Orientation and Mobility professionals and stakeholders. Held in-person, participants will have the opportunity to engage with presenters and audience members through a range of activities.

The OMAA Conference Organising Committee are working hard to deliver a fantastic, educational, and memorable conference program for all attendees. We have secured the keynote speakers for both conference days and some exciting presentations for you in new technologies. We are planning some hands on experiences too!

The OMAA Conference 2025 is the perfect place to demonstrate your ideas, your research involvement, and your toolbox items. We need your O&M expertise to make this conference one for the history books, so don’t miss this opportunity!

Conference Dinner

There will be no official conference welcome drinks on Thursday 13^th of March.

As the conference approaches, we welcome you to register for the conference dinner at Verace Pizza: 7 Khartoum Rd, Macquarie Park from 7 pm on the 14th of March. Our set menu includes two courses and one drink of your choice (beer, glass of wine, or soft drink) and can be booked for $55 per person. The menu will include gluten-free and vegetarian options.

Please register at this site before Friday 7 March.

We are looking forward to seeing you at dinner!

It is another opportunity to network, create relationships, and come together as the O&M Australasian community!

Keynote Speakers & Podcasts

The OMAA Conference Organising Committee are excited to announce the Keynote Speakers for the OMAA Conference 2025

Daniel Kish will be providing a keynote address on Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: a framework for collaborative facilitation of Self-determination, inclusion, and Belonging. Daniel offers a paradigm and framework of self-determined freedom. The reach for freedom is foremost behind development and adaptation at any age, especially the formative years. From the first moments of life, this primal thirst for freedom is self-directed with age appropriate support. It drives every developmental stage throughout the lifespan toward self-determination, leading toward equitable and respected community inclusion, belonging, and achievement. We will understand some of the basic mechanisms around this process, including the ACTS strategic framework (adaptation, Capacity, Technology, and support), SEEING dynamics (Security, Equality, Efficacy, Identity, Negotiation, and Gracefulness), and five functional domains (Mind, Body, Social, Symbolic, and Object). Using a collaborative model of instruction (teaching, coaching, mentorship, and partnership), we will better understand how to support development and minimize disruption of these mechanisms. Listen to Daniel and Trudy discuss his keynote in episode 134 of the NextSense Institute Podcast.

John Ravenscroft will be providing a Keynote address on why understanding the difference between Voxels and Perception is important in supporting children with Cerebral Visual Impairment through daily living activities and orientation and mobility. You can listen to John discuss this topic in NextSense Institute podcast episode 132.

Tristan Clare will be providing a Keynote address on shifting from navigating to work, to navigating for life. Ben Clare will be discussing travel in unfamiliar, hazardous environments, challenges and improvisation to maintain independence. You can listen to the Clare siblings discuss these thought provoking topics in NextSense Institute Podcast episode 133.

Share the news

Please share the conference info with your own networks. Use the hashtag #OMAACONFERENCE2025# when promoting the conference on your social media channels.

Continuing Professional Development

This OMAA Conference will contribute 12 CPD hours towards COMS re-certification with ACVREP as it addresses the Core Domains of the OMAA O&M Framework.