Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Spoken Language of the Blind Preschool Child: A Study of Method
For the adult who has been blind from early infancy life's whole pattern has been affected by the type of training he received during his preschool years. Sometimes through ignorance, sometimes through unavoidable illness, the development of blind and low visioned babies is often neglected until they have reached the age of two or even three. Because proper incentives to mental growth are not given them during these important first months of life they sink into a state of vegetative inertia, a kind of physical and mental lassitude, which they find eminently satisfying, if one can judge by the tenacity with which they resist efforts to stimulate them to constructive activity. True mental growth is retarded for a danger ously long time, from the point of view of the child's normal adjust ment to life as a pupil and as an adult.
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