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We will share how to support your child who has blindness and additional disabilities with current articles and tips.
Many disabilities can occur with an eye condition, even though they may not have been the cause of the eye condition. The combination of disabilities involved can have a significant impact on your child. They can impact your child’s ability to learn about the world, to communicate, and to participate independently in daily life. It […]
Children who have multiple disabilities that involve cognition or thinking have difficulty understanding information and processing it. A common cause of cognitive disabilities is an intellectual disability. A child may seem to have cognitive disabilities due to other impairments affecting their function. For instance, a child with blindness and severe cerebral palsy might have limited […]
What was your child’s first word? This question seems innocent enough, but it caused a great deal of heartache for me every time someone asked it. With respect to my daughter Mary, that first word was never spoken. Throughout our years in Early Intervention, we focused a great deal of effort and energy on encouraging […]
When a child has complex needs involving vision, hearing, motor, and cognitive impairments, it’s tempting to rush to introduce using a switch or a communication device, but slowing down and providing your child the time needed to practice and master skills in the sensorimotor stage may be the key to unlocking these higher-level goals. For […]
Exploring an object by shaking, banging, throwing, touching, or mouthing is one of the first steps in learning the properties of an object and its use. For a child who is blind or low vision with motor impairments that limit their ability to explore items, caregivers can help provide opportunities to teach and practice exploration […]