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Chapter 8: Teaching Everyday Activities
Activites
If your child can see a little, be sure to adapt these activities to best use-her remaining sight (see Chapter 4).
Eating
Blind children can learn eating skills at the same time as children who can see. Expect your child to do what other children her age in your community can do. These ages differ from community to community. But many children learn eating skills at about these times:
Birth to 4 months: A baby sucks and swallows. She also learns to open her mouth when she is about to be fed.
6 months or older: Along with breast milk, she begins to eat soft, mashed foods, like cereal or rice. She may begin drinking from a cup.
6 to 12 months: She begins feeding herself small bits of food with her hands. She should still breastfeed whenever she wants it.
9 months to 1 year: She begins to eat mashed foods and to use some eating tools, like a spoon.
1 to 3 years: She learns to better
use eating tools and a cup.
3 years: She can eat most adult foods.
A child who cannot see well will learn to feed herself more quickly if she eats about the same time every day, in the same place, and with other people. This helps her learn that eating is done in a certain way. She will also learn the names of foods more quickly if everyone in the family uses the same name for the same food.
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