Helping Children Who Are Blind (Early Assistance Series for Children With Disabilities)

Children develop faster during their first five years than at any other stage in their life. And while children who are not visually impaired learn to move around, communicate, and understand the world naturally as they interact with people and things they see, children who are blind need extra help learning how to rely on their other senses - hearing, touch, smell, and taste - to explore, learn and interact with the world around them. The simple and engaging activities in this book can help parents, caregivers, teachers, health workers, rehabilitation workers, and others help a child with vision problems develop all his or her capabilities. Topics includeassessing how much a child can seepreventing blindnesshelping a child move around safelyhow to include learning activities in daily workpreparing for childcare and schoolsupporting parents of blind childrenand teaching common activities like eating, dressing, and keeping clean