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Helping Children Who Are Blind

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Table of Contents

Introductory Material
- Copyright Information
- Credits
- Thanks
- Thanks - Digital Edition
- About this Book
- How to Use the HealthWiki
Chapter 1: How Can I Help My Child?
- How children develop
- How vision problems affect development
- How you can help
- What about my child’s future?
Chapter 2: Getting Started
- How can this book help?
- Which activities should I do first?
- How can I fit these activities into my family’s daily life?
Chapter 3: General Guidelines for Learning Activities
- You are the expert about your child
- Let your child take the lead
- Adapt activities for your child
- First, try activities yourself
- Work from behind your child
- Be consistent
- Allow your child enough time
- Let your child know how he is doing
- Let your child know what is happening around him
- Remember how children learn
- Encourage your child to be independent
- Make the best use of your child’s remaining sight
Chapter 4: Finding Out What Your Child Can See
- Is my child totally blind, or can she see a little?
- What does my child see?
- Helping your child use the sight she has
- Will my child’s sight get worse?
Chapter 5: Activities for the Young Baby (Birth to 6 Months)
- Birth to 3 months old
- 4 to 6 months old
Chapter 6: Communication
- How vision problems affect communication
- Talking to your child is very important
- Communicating before your child can talk
- Preparing to talk
- When your child begins to talk
- Common problems when learning to talk
Chapter 7: Thinking Skills
- Understanding objects
- Doing the same things others do (imitation)
- Understanding why things happen (cause and effect)
- Solving problems
- Matching and sorting objects
- Counting
- Increasing your child’s thinking skills
Chapter 8: Teaching Everyday Activities
- Taking care of himself
- Helping with your family’s work
- Being independent
- Being well-behaved
- Eating
- Dressing
- Using the toilet or latrine (toilet training)
- Keeping clean
Chapter 9: Safety

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