[blindkid] What are your thoughts on coloring?

[hpscheffer at aol.com]

My daughter has light perception in one eye and no vision at all in the other, she now is 12. When she was in preschool she liked coloring and painting, not because she was told, but because she enjoyed it. She had braille lessons, and a Perkins which she had a hard time using since she was so tiny from being so premature, and had no strength to push the keys, we knew this was a matter of time. As she grew, she got stronger and could use the Perkins with no trouble, now she has a BrailleNote which takes no strength to type. I don't quite get the point of making him color if he does not like it, I would find out if working with play dough would be an option for him, if the point is to strengthen his fingers. 


Good luck


Heidi



-----Original Message-----
From: Meng, Debi <Meng at sccompanies.com>
To: NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children) <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thu, Sep 29, 2011 10:48 am
Subject: [blindkid] What are your thoughts on coloring?


What are your thoughts on coloring?   Jonathan is 6 years old and in
Kindergarten this year, he has no vision in his left eye and only light
perception in his right eye.  He cannot see the paper or the crayon.
Should the TVI be spending valuable time coloring?  He knows what
coloring is, he was in Early Childhood and 4K for 3 years.    He does
not enjoy coloring and will do anything not to have to sit and color.
He is being forced to sit and color until his paper is complete, which
is long after the other kids in the class have completed their color
page and moved on to other activities. 

There has to be other things that are more beneficial for him to be
working on.   Suggestions???

Debi, grandmother of Jonathan, ROP  - Wisconsin



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