Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Upcoming Conferences and CPD opportunities: International O&M Online Symposium: 26-28 January, 2022. Read more at the IOMOS website. 11th National Deafblind Conference: 30 June – 1 July, 2022, in Perth, Western Australia. Read more at the conference website. The OMAA Online Symposium: hosted two weeks ago, the symposium was a wonderfully…
Mandatory Declarations We would like to take this opportunity to remind our Registered and Ordinary members to please log in to the OMAA website and update their profiles to indicate compliance with our Code of Ethics. This is becoming more urgent as we progress our professionalisation and look forward to having funding for O&M recognised…
Mandatory Declarations We would like to take this opportunity to remind our Registered and Ordinary members to please log in to the website and update their profiles to indicate compliance with our Code of Ethics. This is becoming more urgent as we progress our professionalisation and look forward to having funding for O&M recognised via…
RIDBC rebrand Did you know that the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC) has changed their name? RIDBC is now known as NextSense and the Renwick Centre at RIDBC is now known as NextSense Institute. You can find out more about the rebrand on the NextSense website. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Upcoming…
Our current OMAA Secretary, Katie Farrell is moving on to a new opportunity and has advised the need to step down from her role in April 2021. We sincerely thank Katie and wish her all the best for the future. The OMAA is now advertising the role of OMAA Secretary. The role is voluntary and…
The inaugural Professional Development Committee (PDC) Annual Survey provided some insights from the OMAA membership (26 members) on how the PDC is perceived, areas for improvement and the membership’s priorities for professional development in 2021. The PDC really appreciated the feedback and are using it to inform our action plans for this year. The PDC…