[Faith-talk] developmental delay among the blind

Brandon A. Olivares programmer2188 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 30 17:22:16 UTC 2014


It doesn’t help we often don’t have as many opportunities to socialize. I don’t know how it was for everyone else here, but I know in grade school, I was often chosen last for groups, simply because others didn’t know what to make of me. For me I didn’t really start becoming comfortable in social situations until college, when I joined a fraternity of all things. They helped me to loosen up and treated me like just another person.

> On Dec 30, 2014, at 11:35 AM, justin williams via Faith-talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> A lot of it is putting the child in position to experience the world through
> their other senses.  If I am sitting in a group of people, and something
> totally visual is on a TV screen, and I don't react to it, I can come off as
> developmentally delayed; if the child doesn't stack the blocks, because they
> don't see the other kids doing it, they may come off developmentally delayed
> even with no mental disabilities.  Anytime you are not quite on what
> everyone else is doing, it can seem like that.  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Faith-talk [mailto:faith-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Debby
> Phillips via Faith-talk
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 9:39 AM
> To: Timothy Clark Ministries; Faith-talk, for the discussion of faith and
> religion; programmer2188 at gmail.com; faith-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] developmental delay among the blind
> 
> From the time I was very small, I was taught to look in people's direction
> when they talked, to reach out and shake hands, things like that.  Plus I
> grew up with brothers and I had to be rough and tumble to get along with
> them.  Plus I tried and still try to be observant.  I am blind from birth,
> too.  A lot of my life I have been mainly with sighted folks.  But in the
> last couple years, it's been more with blind folks.  I think that perhaps we
> can't really generalize about blind from birth versus becoming 
> blind later on.  It really depends on so many factors.    
> Blessings,    Debby and Neena
> 
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