[nabs-l] developmental delay and blindness

[Carly Mihalakis]

Evening, Michael,

         I don't have any Arielle-like answers accept for my having 
been born with the ability to see but was bienucleated (relieved of 
some cancerous ocular organs)  at age 18 months. After that, I 
settled into a way of seeing my world which I love. In fact, ocular 
blindness, as a matter of fact, is my favorite personal 
characteristic. I don't really feel blind, however, if anyone out 
there can quantify a blind feeling, I hope you describe it for us!
Remember, there are many ways of seeing, only thing about ocularly 
blind people is that they don't see with their ocular holes. We are 
still seeing, though.
Brian Ridgeway, I think is your guy from SoCal. He partners with 
Daniel Kish to explore the blind man's plane of seeing.
We are not blind! I'm convinced that, this is the origin of 
Ol'Sighty's being baffled by how blind people live. Haven't you heard 
that jazz about blindness's being caused by masturbation?
Intriguing!
Car

   Andrew via nabs-l wrote:
>Hi Michael thank you for your note   it is a great topic by the way  I
>will be looking forward to hearing the other's views on this.
>
>On 12/29/14, Michael D Ausbun <mausbun at unr.edu> wrote:
> > Hello:
> >       First, a couple of disclaimers.
> > 1)    No question is ever dumb.
> > 2)    I'm not a doctor, medical or otherwise, nor is Nero 
> cognition my area of
> > expertise.
> > With that said, I would like to propose two different theories. First, I'd
> > argue that developmental delays ought to be normal for most blind
> > individuals. A large part of human adaptation comes from visual 
> analysis; if
> > we lack that capability, then adaptation is slower and thus, development is
> > slowed. Now, with that said, I know there have been studies (at my
> > University and probably others), in the neuroscience field, which show that
> > other senses (smell, sound, etc.)  Produce responses within the visual
> > cortex of blind individual's brains (there is a gentleman from California,
> > by the name of Brian something, who was on the discovery channel who
> > referred to this as a form of echo location). This would expedite the
> > development somewhat I'd think, but not to the same degree.
> >       My second theory is that people are more inclined to label visually
> > challenged individuals as developmentally delayed, in order to explain the
> > inability to grasp certain things (personally, I'd argue this is ablest in
> > nature). What I mean is, if a blind person does not receive tactile
> > representations of inherently visual things, but a person expects them to
> > know what it is (I.E. a round-Square), they might decide that person is
> > merely developmentally delayed.
> >       I don't know if either theory is accurate, perhaps Arielle 
> or someone with
> > a little more relevant expertise might be able to give you a better answer.
> > Respectfully,
> > Michael Ausbun
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: nabs-l [nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Andrew via nabs-l
> > [nabs-l at nfbnet.org]
> > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 11:46 AM
> > To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> > Subject: [nabs-l] developmental delay and blindness
> >
> > Hi all
> > have a rather dumb question.   Is developmental delay quite common
> > amung blind people or is it not that common the person who  works with
> > just disability people over all said i have a slight developmental
> > delay  that is why i am asking.  like they re fer to her as a doctor
> > so and so but not really medical doctor though. but anyway is this a
> > common thing?
> >
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