[blindkid] Suggestions for keeping a child from injuring his owneyes

[Barbara Hammel]

I sure wish I'd had an answer for this question a few years ago.  We think 
one of ours has lost all or most of his vision, too, from this same 
behavior.
I get the whole "seeing bright lights" when you poke your eye, but why do 
some of us poke eyes and some don't?  I'll admit it can be a soothing 
behavior.
Our other one has never been an eye poker so he leaves conformers in his 
eyes.  When the poker would leave his conformers in, he didn't poke near as 
much as he does without them.
Barbara




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-----Original Message----- 
From: Kieszak, Stephanie (CDC/ONDIEH/NCEH)
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:13 PM
To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindkid] Suggestions for keeping a child from injuring his 
owneyes

A friend of mine has a child with severe autism.  Last week, he hit his eyes 
so hard that he lost vision in the left and had to have surgery to restore 
some of the vision in the right.  Now she's worried about how to keep him 
from injuring his eye again. Any suggestions?
Thank you.
Stephanie Kieszak-Holloway
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