[blindkid] Notes on Eye Poking

[eleonora Desplanches]

Daphne, who has LCA, started to poke her eyes when she was just 7 weeks old
and I think that at that time she had some kind of (very limited) vision,
so I don't think it is related to a need for stimulation as Deborah said.
Sometimes she pushes with her hands/fists/toys... and sometimes (most
recently) she just pushes with her index.
For Daphne, it really looks like a reflex similar to sucking her thumb, as
Barbara said.

On 1 May 2012 18:44, "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com> wrote:

It would also be interesting to know if there is a corelation between
whether eye poking happens more frequently when a child does not have older
siblings who are close in age.  Though many of my friends were eye pokers,
I do not recall ever having acquired the habit.  I tried it when my friends
got corrected but, besides the distortion of ligh when the eye was open or
the bright white light that came when the eye was closed, I never figured
out what was so fun about doing it.
I have one that pokes incessantly and one that never pokes, which is
interesting since they are twins with the same eye
condition--microophthalmia--**and both would have had ample alone time
since they were in an orphanage at eight months of age.
I suppose it's just like why do some children suck their thumb or twirl
their hair or chew their nails.
Barbara




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-----Original Message----- From: Richard Holloway
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 10:30 AM
To: Deborah Kent Stein ; Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind
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Subject: Re: [blindkid] Notes on Eye Poking



That is interesting. Kendra was not born blind, but had lost practical use
of her limited initial ...
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