How Does Blindness Affect Cognitive Development

In some cases, children are affected by deafness or blindness, which can affect their cognitive development due to the lack of a sense. When children develop their cognition, an important part of this development is communication and listening to the family to eventually understand all of the names given to objects and people. Blindness can affect a child’s cognitive development as well, due to the child not being able to they see the objects and people they learn to speak about. However, even though the child’s cognitive development could be delayed or impaired, this does not mean that they have any less of a human nature than someone without these disorders; this just means that they may have to work harder and have more help in fulfilling
Because the children cannot hear, this causes the action of reading or communicating, due to the fact that they are not able to listen to words, to be difficult. This process of learning to communicate is achieved through a combination of sign language and reading, helped by the child’s parents or family. Sign language interacts with learning how to read therefore learning to do both could advance each form of communication. Roland Tharp and Dr. Ronald Gallimore, both educated in psychology, explain that a literate person is one who is “capable of reading, writing, speaking, computing, reasoning, and manipulation visual as well as verbal symbols and concepts.” Therefore a person can learn to read through seeing as well as just listening and learning through speech. It seems that the sense that is used to its full potential is sight. Because one sense is lost, another sense somewhat takes its place. Therefore it is important for parents to assist their children in this process of signing and reading, so that they are able to express their nature, in their own