[blparent] curious.

Sun Feb 21 05:09:03 UTC 2016

That's a great example, and shows that, although eye contact is important, it's not a deal-breaker in the communication world as one hons the verbal skills.

Judy

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From: Wendy Meuse via BlParent  <blparent at nfbnet.org>
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Date: Saturday, February 20, 2016 8:07 pm
Subject: Re: [blparent] curious.

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> 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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> 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:
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> Very cute.  Then she probably goes on to describe it.  I know our girls were both and still are nonstop talkers.
>
> Judy
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> -----Original Message----- From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto via BlParent
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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
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> 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
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> -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Bowden via BlParent
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 7:59 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] curious.
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> 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
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>> 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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