Being Legally Blind: Observations for Parents of Visually Impaired Children
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This is a great book, thoughtful, concise and clear. I am a mother of two children with visual impairment. It offered me a special kind of insight into my children's daily lives - and most importantly it gave me hope for their future. I am truly grateful to Mr. Oldham for sharing his experiences so openly and honestly and look forward to more books from him on the subject. Although this book is targeted to parents and family members of legally blind children, the author is so candid about his experiences that it has appeal for anyone. Oldham's reflections on the bullying he endured smash the myths that handicapped children are spared this type of victimization.
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Being Legally Blind: Observations for Parents of Visually Impaired Children by Justin Oldham
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He has the greatest empathy for parents struggling with These issues. This is the book he wished his parents would have had and the one his mother told him he would write one day -- a manual addressing the many thorny issues of successfully parenting a legally blind child. This includes the fears and prejudices of parents, who often have no experience with the capabilities of blind people and the small-minded professionals whose idea of helping is to counsel parents to expect less from their legally blind child than they would if he or she were fully sighted.
These two issues, in my opinion, are the cornerstones which support one of the greatest paradoxes and injustices of humanity.
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More than two-thirds of working-age legally blind Americans are unemployed or under-employed, and yet some blind people are working successfully as chemists, mechanics, lawyers, beekeepers, teachers and in any profession you can name, except driving. Several blind people have graduated from medical school, while others are NASA engineers and assistant district attorneys in major cities. The successful ones aren't savants or geniuses and they haven't been allowed to skate by out of pity. Someone in their lives expected them to succeed and helped them acquire the skills and technology they'd need to accomplish their goals.
Any parent can "inadvertently impress on their kids that what they are is more important than who they are," according to Oldham.
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He explains the root of his parents' initial prejudice about his role and potential as a blind person. Block quote My parents were both born and raised in strict, deeply devoted, religious families. My mother was perky, popular, and fashionable. My father was a handsome track star on his way to a meteoric military career. Both were frugal, with few vices.
A tenet of their faith at the time I was born was that birth defects were a punishment from God.
Oldham knows from personal experience that it is not sufficient to know that there are bullies. Legally blind children are confused about why they can see this and not that, why they can see something sometimes and not others. You submitted the following rating and review. Katie Moncelsi marked it as to-read Mar 11, Inside the Teenage Brain. Diagonal in a Parallel World. You've successfully reported this review.
Block quote end Like the individuals they are, parents come to terms with these issues in their own ways and in their own time. Without ever knowing it, my father sowed a huge field of doubt that plagued me for many years. In his mind, being legally blind meant bad things. When he talked about me in the presence of other people, his words and tone communicated that negativity.
In her mind, there was no doubt about what I would eventually become.
Her warnings scared me when she talked about the troubles I would face, but her optimism filtered through even when she talked about me to other people. Block quote end Another major issue tackled in the book is the "definition" of legal blindness, which sounds simple on the surface. A totally blind child cannot see anything, and a legally blind child does see something. Most people with severe visual impairments are not totally blind, and that in itself leads to confusion.
Legally blind children are confused about why they can see this and not that, why they can see something sometimes and not others.
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