DEVELOPING SELF WITHOUT SIGHT: The Psychology of a Blind Child

A child sighted or blind is born into this world with all the building blocks for what they can become. This physical material is impacted by the child’s environment over a life time while the “self” evolves. The self is the same in blind children as it is in the sighted, only the developmental process is different. Both children have the same starting materials: mind, body, and spirit. With these parts the child develops a process of thinking, feeling, and behaving toward other people, obj...