[blparent] curious.

[Wendy Meuse]

Yes I think that children of blind mothers are more verbal.  Insidentally when I started working in daycare and some of the children 
would point at things instead of asking for them, I would tell them that they had to use their words.  The head teacher of the 
daycare said that she really noticed how quickly the children's language skills picked up.  I worked with the three to five year 
olds.  I just loved it.
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From: "Tara Wiseman via BlParent" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
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Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] curious.


Do you guys think the children of blind parents are more verbal? I know my little 18-month-old daughter is extremely verbal. My 
pediatrician was very impressed with the way that Marie makes eye contact and said it was very unusual for her age. I read a study 
of children of blind moms. The children of blind mothers made iContact better thanor at the same level as their peers who were 
children of cited mothers. The theory was that because children were being taken care of by their blind moms and then presumably 
other sighted family members and friends it was very natural to them to make a switch between auditory and visual worlds.  Anyway 
just interested in what everyone thinks.
Tara

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> On Feb 20, 2016, at 12:42 PM, Judy Jones via BlParent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Very cute.  Then she probably goes on to describe it.  I know our girls were both and still are nonstop talkers.
>
> Judy
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto via BlParent
> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 11:57 AM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] curious.
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> My daughter is almost eight years old, and she still half believes I have a
> pair of working eyes hiding somewhere under the hair in the back of my head.
> Sometimes she'll draw a picture or bring a really good paper home from
> school or something, and she'll be really excited and say, "Look, look!"
> I'll remind her I can't see it, and she'll say, "Mom!  Look with your back
> eyes!"
>
> Jo Elizabeth
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> -----Original Message----- From: Judy Jones via BlParent
> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 11:07 AM
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> Cc: Judy Jones
> Subject: Re: [blparent] curious.
>
> When raising my girls, my husband and I used to say, the eyes in the front
> of the head may not ork, but the ones in the back do.  We'd joke about it,
> and the girls knew what we meant.
>
> Judy
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Bowden via BlParent
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 7:59 PM
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> Cc: Elizabeth Bowden
> Subject: Re: [blparent] curious.
>
> What an interesting topic:
> For my part, I have many nieces and nephews but never had that difficulty.
> I am a to look like I am looking at them enough so that they don't notice
> anything till they are about 4 or 5.  Then they wonder why I keep my eyes
> closed sometimeso.  I just tell them I don't need my eyes like they do.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Feb 19, 2016, at 8:18 PM, Wendy Meuse via BlParent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> i know that our own kids get used to the way we do things.  Eeven when my daughter was quite a small baby, my husband told me 
>> that
>> she could tel that  I was not looking at her. of course I was talking to her as any mother does, and I had my face turned towards
>> her, but of course our eyes did  not meet.  My daughter took this in stride.  Whenn I was watching other children though it took
>> them a little while to get used to me not  looking at them. i wondered iff any of you noticed this and did it take say, yourr
>> nabor's children or your  friend's children long to get used to this situation?  When I started worrking at daycare, it took some 
>> of
>> the kids a while to get used to it.  I had to work harder to win their confidence.  i thought this would be an  interesting topic
>> and I wondered what you guys thhink?
>> today is a brand new day with no mistakes in it.  let go of the past and move forward.
>>
>>
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