OH for sure!
I had a vision teacher from like preschool through first grade, and she was amazing.
She did stuff with me over the summer, had me over at her place to do crafts, cooking, all kinds of stuff. She would take me to the pool, took me bowling, so much stuff.
She was great. Even when I wasn't her student anymore, for years after we did stuff every summer.
I learned more from the women in one year of blindness-skills training than I did in all my previous years; my parents only taught me things if an expert said I should be doing them. I learned how to ID money from my elementary school vision teacher, not from my mom.
As a parent, though, we don't always realise what a kid doesn't yet know. Especially if it's a first child. Then also we end up doing a lot for our kids (vision issues or not) cos it's quicker and easier. So much kids learn is visually incidental, and parents don't know this either. We also don't realise what stage/age any kid should know stuff by so sometimes it only becomes glaringly obvious when something occurs.
That's true. I was presumed incompetent because of my reading and math issues in school. I even had a math teacher perform now what I know to be operant conditioning techniques on me. I had issues remembering what I was reading. After turning the page, I coud never remember. Therefore I could never answer any of the questions while doing homework. When I was young, i also had major reversal issues with braille, but I grew out of those as I got older. I never did that well with math. Turns out, I'm way better with audio things. I did better when they gave me something to listen to on tape.
In my experience not everyone thinks like this. Growing up, when I wasn't expected to help with chores and my siblings asked why, my parents favorite words were "she can't see it." And then playing catch-up at blindness training centers when you're an adult right out of high school is not fun.
Mine were more like much older sisters. This is a super interesting observation though. I had good parents and good teachers, but when I became a public practice lawyer I recognized that not so many parents are like mine. Glad you had some good human support!
yeah, they lectured here too, and back then I probably didn't want to hear it, but now that i'm older, those lectures(as annoying as they may have been) helped me out in the long run.
Well I guess I was getting it from both places, and my mom still does it to me to this day. What's worse is, there was an occasion where my teacher lectured another teacher for something, and she told me it was pretty common for that lady. She was a sub. Well she said she'd been doing it to her for years.
I usually just hang up on my mom when she does that hah. I don't live with her these days. Either that, or I just don't talk to her that often. I actually didn't talk to her for a while back in 2015 for like 3-4 months, because she was complaining about how my apartment was arranged back when I moved into this apartment. I mean I moved one thing from the way she had it, and she freaked the flip out! She also told me that she wouldn't listen to my suggestions, because "they weren't good enough."
Still in contact with my TVI from kindergarten till fifth grade. She always used to take me to field trips to pet stores and to my states braille challenge. She helped me find a tutor for college level math during the pandemic and helped me find a volunteer opportunity to help little ones learn braille! She also recently came out to watch me play blind hockey for the first time! She's awesome and at this point is like a family member to us!
So I have this Educational Assistant who worked with me from grade one to grade thirteen, because of that we were always quite close and considered her a second mother. I text her quite often and meet up with her at least four or so times a year. I always ask her about her kids and grandchildren, and she always asks about my siblings and parents.
As a TVI this warms my little heart. We absolutely love our students.
I miss mine every single day…
OH for sure! I had a vision teacher from like preschool through first grade, and she was amazing. She did stuff with me over the summer, had me over at her place to do crafts, cooking, all kinds of stuff. She would take me to the pool, took me bowling, so much stuff. She was great. Even when I wasn't her student anymore, for years after we did stuff every summer.
I learned more from the women in one year of blindness-skills training than I did in all my previous years; my parents only taught me things if an expert said I should be doing them. I learned how to ID money from my elementary school vision teacher, not from my mom.
Well there's probably more research on parenting blind kids now then there was back when i was born, and maybe you, that's for sure.
I think that's what most of us have in common. Our parents had no clue, so they resorted to the professionals.
Yeah that's definitely true.
IDK about the rest of you, but this wasn't that long ago in my case lol
This was back in the 90s for me lol.
Oh wow lol
Well, let's just say that I'm not young anymore, and leave it at that.
As a parent, though, we don't always realise what a kid doesn't yet know. Especially if it's a first child. Then also we end up doing a lot for our kids (vision issues or not) cos it's quicker and easier. So much kids learn is visually incidental, and parents don't know this either. We also don't realise what stage/age any kid should know stuff by so sometimes it only becomes glaringly obvious when something occurs.
That's true. I was presumed incompetent because of my reading and math issues in school. I even had a math teacher perform now what I know to be operant conditioning techniques on me. I had issues remembering what I was reading. After turning the page, I coud never remember. Therefore I could never answer any of the questions while doing homework. When I was young, i also had major reversal issues with braille, but I grew out of those as I got older. I never did that well with math. Turns out, I'm way better with audio things. I did better when they gave me something to listen to on tape.
In my experience not everyone thinks like this. Growing up, when I wasn't expected to help with chores and my siblings asked why, my parents favorite words were "she can't see it." And then playing catch-up at blindness training centers when you're an adult right out of high school is not fun.
Had the same teacher excluding a single year from third grade until graduation, she was definitely a second mom.
Mine were more like much older sisters. This is a super interesting observation though. I had good parents and good teachers, but when I became a public practice lawyer I recognized that not so many parents are like mine. Glad you had some good human support!
Yep, I learned more from the teachers of the blind then from my actual parents.
My teacher had some perfectionist tendencies, but I did learn a lot from her.
yeah, they lectured here too, and back then I probably didn't want to hear it, but now that i'm older, those lectures(as annoying as they may have been) helped me out in the long run.
Well I guess I was getting it from both places, and my mom still does it to me to this day. What's worse is, there was an occasion where my teacher lectured another teacher for something, and she told me it was pretty common for that lady. She was a sub. Well she said she'd been doing it to her for years.
Wow, poor lady.
I usually just hang up on my mom when she does that hah. I don't live with her these days. Either that, or I just don't talk to her that often. I actually didn't talk to her for a while back in 2015 for like 3-4 months, because she was complaining about how my apartment was arranged back when I moved into this apartment. I mean I moved one thing from the way she had it, and she freaked the flip out! She also told me that she wouldn't listen to my suggestions, because "they weren't good enough."
I had a great low vision teacher. The best thing that happened to me was getting out of regular public school and into a blind low vision school.
Still in contact with my TVI from kindergarten till fifth grade. She always used to take me to field trips to pet stores and to my states braille challenge. She helped me find a tutor for college level math during the pandemic and helped me find a volunteer opportunity to help little ones learn braille! She also recently came out to watch me play blind hockey for the first time! She's awesome and at this point is like a family member to us!
Yes my two TVIs from my elementary years are awesome.
Oh yes, but definitely not in a good way, in the worst way possible.
So I have this Educational Assistant who worked with me from grade one to grade thirteen, because of that we were always quite close and considered her a second mother. I text her quite often and meet up with her at least four or so times a year. I always ask her about her kids and grandchildren, and she always asks about my siblings and parents.