6 how can i help my child?
How vision problems affect development
When a child can see, she usually develops skills ‘naturally’ as she
watches and plays with the people and objects she sees around her.
Playing gives a child many ‘natural’ opportunities to move about and to
learn.
When a child sees an interesting object, she reaches for it or
crawls to get it. This helps her arms and legs grow strong.
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Playing with objects helps a child
learn thinking skills, like solving
simple problems. Here a child learns
how to bring her toy closer by pulling
its string.
Playing also helps a
child to talk. When she
is interested in objects,
she learns to name
them.
Children naturally copy what they see. Watching
other people helps a child learn how to do things
and how to behave.
A young child learns to speak by hearing
other people speak and by seeing what
they talk about.
A child learns how to
dress himself by watching
other people.
helping children who are blind