This year the DOM team completed the BELS training over two sessions based at Homai in Auckland. This was such a great opportunity for our DOM team to come together… Read more
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Palmerston North VRC Little Dots whānau group
The focus of the Little Dots group is to provide a place where our ākonga and their whānau can come together to connect with each other and to participate in… Read more
Massey BLENNZ DOM Living Skills Course
This year the DOM team have worked in collaboration with Massey to offer the Living Skills course in Palmerston North and Dunedin. These courses were facilitated by Shiree Arrian and… Read more
Busy Bees Curriculum Day
Busy Bees Curriculum Day creates opportunities to foster lifelong friendships as well as work on both Expanded Core and NZ Curriculum Goals. Identifying and using money: BLENNZ DOM instructor Jayne… Read more
Outing with a guide dog
A group of secondary-aged ākonga went on a train trip to Blind Low Vision NZ Mobility Centre. They used the state of the art – only mobility centre in the… Read more
Regional days
Professional Development for the Regional Teams took place again in Term 2. Four workshops were held around the country for the teaching team to introduce the draft of Te Mataiaho,… Read more
DOM and RTV collaborating using the Wise Walker resource
In Palmerston North, RTV and DOM are collaborating to develop a resource that can be used by RTV’s to support DOM programmes in preparation for a learner’s community goals. Our… Read more
Covid successes: Hybrid Developmental Orientation and Mobility Programming
Covid has meant that ‘hybrid’ – in person and via zoom – Specialist programming has become a creative way to support learners and their teams. This has been a success… Read more
Developmental Orientation and Mobility on Campus course
At the end of term 2, BLENNZ Tauranga were fortunate to run the four-day Developmental Orientation and Mobility on Campus course for 10 RTVs. Involved in this event were 2… Read more
City adventure for 2 cane users
Over this new disrupted time we continued to be supported by the National team at BLENNZ. Our DOM programme continued with Kay Daly who zoomed with us, mentored us and… Read more