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.
Due to budget restrictions, we have needed to cancel the welcome drinks on the 13th March, and invite you to register and pay for the conference dinner. A 2 course dinner is offered for $75 per person at Verace Pizza: 7 Khartoum Rd, Macquarie Park from 7pm on the 14th March. Please register at this site before Friday 7 March. Drinks are at your own expense.
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!
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.
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.
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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.
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