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Collaboration Achieves Travel Success or CATS website is a decision-making tool. Educational teams can follow the ten phase process to determine where and how children who are deafblind can maneuver more successfully. Each phase consists of clear-cut steps for developing patterns of movement or travel routes around or during activity events. Included in the CATS model are video examples, reading resources, checklists, forms, definitions and where useful, explanations from the related field of Orientation & Mobility (O&M). Although teams using the CATS model are encouraged to include O&M instructors, this isn't always possible. The purpose of Orientation & Mobility also has a somewhat different focus. While CATS identifies opportunities to move more successfully during activities, O&M teaches specific skills needed in both familiar and unfamiliar environments. And while, CATS seeks to create whatever adaptive supports will increase access to typical settings, O&M focuses on individual independence. O&M training also requires a certified O&M instructor while the CATS model uses a team approach to center on a person's active participation in the mobility components of daily routines.
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