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Graduate Diploma in Orientation and Mobility

Course code/s: Melbourne (HGOM)

This one year full-time course of study enables suitably qualified graduates to become instructors in orientation and mobility. The orientation and mobility instructor’s principal role is to teach people with blindness/low vision to travel safely and independently by foot and public transport. Instructors in orientation and mobility are required by organisations that provide services to people with blindness/low vision or other disabilities. As well as learning about the theoretical basis of orientation and mobility, instruction methods and program development, the student will become highly skilled in the techniques of blind/low vision mobility.

Admission requirements

A degree in the health sciences, education or in the behavioural sciences is preferred. Applicants will be selected on academic merit, interview and demonstrated interest in the provision of services to people with special needs.

Course structure

This course is normally undertaken full-time over one year. The subjects required are as follows:

Teaching period	Subject code	Subject title	Credit Points
TE-SEM-1	ORT3TMA	Theory of Orientation and Mobility A	15
TE-SEM-1	ORT4OMM	Orientation Mobility Methods	30
TE-SEM-1	HBS2CAN	Clinical Anatomy and Neurosciences	15
TE-SEM-2	ORT3TMB	Theory of Orientation and Mobility B	15
TE-SEM-2	ORT3OPM	Ocular Pathology & Microbiology	30
TE-SEM-2	ORT4OFP	O&M Field Placement	15