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ARTICLES The Story Of Tangles Music in the Life of a Blind Child Tot-a-Doodle-Do! Celebrates May is Better Speech & Hearing Month Wikki Stix For the Sight-Impaired Child Life: Empowering Children and Families to Cope With Life's Challenges Why Don't You Get Better Glasses? Did You Hear Me? Play and the Impaired Child "Play is a spontaneous act that involves interaction with objects or people in a pleasurable manner. It occurs across all environments and can be goal directed or free flowing" (Fewell, 1986). "Play includes an element of enjoyment, something that is done for fun... If it's not fun, it's not really play" (Musslewhite, 1986, p.26). While this occurs naturally for most non-impaired children, the disabled child's difficulties or delays in self-direction and motivation often are inappropriately responded to by professionals who utilize intervention strategies that incorporate overly structured teacher-directed experiences. Ways You Can Help Your Child Since receiving injections is a frightening experience for children, your presence and support can be very beneficial to your child. Try these distraction ideas when your child is getting injections or at any other time the child is afraid. LINKS The Blind Children's Learning Center of Orange County Provides direct services to blind, visually impaired and deaf/blind children, birth to 21 years of age. Three core programs: Infant Family Focus (birth to 3 years), Early Childhood Center (6 months to 6 years), Youth Outreach (Kindergarten thru 12th grade). Services include: Speech and Language, Orientation and Mobility, Braille Instruction, Occupational Therapy, Technology, Tutoring, Counseling and Family Support. Article: Music in the Life of a Blind Child Contact: Kathy Goodspeed Braille Institute of America, Inc. Braille Institute is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to eliminate blindness and severe sight loss as a barrier to a fulfilling life. Contact: Elizabeth Baroglio, Teleservices The Center for the Partially Sighted The Center provides comprehensive low vision care for children and adults with impaired sight. Our Children's Program is devoted exclusively to helping children with unique vision problems, including those with eye diseases, visual processing problems and legally blind children with remaining sight. In addition to optometric evaluations and low vision devices, our Family Resource Project provides ongoing resources and referrals, education, advocacy and support for parents and children in our program. Contact: Patricia Jordan, Public Information Manager ROPARD and The Children's Low Vision Resource Center A nonprofit dedicated to working with children with pediatric retinal diseases, primarily retinopathy of prematurity, ROPARD funds clinically relevant research seeking to understand, treat, and prevent childhood retinal diseases. We also assist families with children with pediatric retinal diseases through our free Children's Low Vision Resource Center. Contact: Paula Korelitz Story Roads Story Roads™ produces exciting and thoroughly entertaining "Children's AUDIO Theatre" (C.AT). All productions are told in a series format using only original stories brought to life by the amazing acting talents of full casts of professional actors. Story Roads productions are educational as well; being delightfully filled with lessons children of all ages can relate to and learn from, while the actual physical aspect of listening works to improve children's listening, audio processing, creative visualization, imagination and memory skills by isolating those skills and giving them a good workout. Families will love listening together in the car, at home, or snuggled together at bedtime the way they did back in the day of Ole' Time Radio Theatre...but with a modern day flair! Contact: Karen Ehrenberg |
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