Describe the world to a blind child...  |
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 How would you describe the things we see and the creation of God to a child that since birth have been blind? I myself really couldn't answer this. How could he/she appreciate this? Although I know that he could appreciate sounds more than we do but still only dark is what he sees.
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1.  hotsummer (2685) | 1 month ago |  i would express it the best i can for a child to be able to understand it. it will be hard indeed since the child has not seen any thing since birth. but i guess that by letting a child touch things and able to describe things by what he touched could make it easy for him to understand things.
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| charmz1005 (363) | 1 month ago | Your right, they can identify an object through touch. How about the colors? I wanted to describe a color to them but don't know how? | |
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| hotsummer (2685) | 1 month ago | there is no way to describe color except the color that they can see. i mean being blind they see black and sometimes some white light and that is all they can see i think. cause i have heard from one blind person before that they can still some bright thing but she was not blind at birth so she knows how to identify the color she sees when she became blind.
so for those born blind at birth it is impossible to describe colors to them. there is no way to do that. only if they can see it themselves that they can understand what color is. color is something that is not possible to describe by words without comparing it with other colors. | |
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| 2. CrimsonRain (83) | 1 month ago |  "You know, our world is a very colorful place with deep blue sky, bright red sun, cotton white clouds, and nature green trees. But since you can't see any of them, you are very lucky, because none of these things really matter. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
BTW, nice topic.:-)
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| charmz1005 (363) | 1 month ago | Yup, your also right. They couldn't see all the bad things happening in this world. All the selfishness, jealousy, and other miserable things that man are doing. Thanks, I've just thought it and couldn't answer myself. | |
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| 3. getbrowser (1430) | 1 month ago |  It is next to impossible for me to finish such a job.
For the blind children, they may have some advantages in sound and feelings. So, if we want to describe the world, we can try to let them be aware of the existence of world with sound and other feelings. It is useless to tell them the colors of things.
I am not sure if it will help, but we can have a try.
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| charmz1005 (363) | 1 month ago | Very nice suggestion. We could relate it to the sounds that they are hearing, like instrumental music, let's say a rainbow could be describe a happy and joyful songs, right? Nice idea, thanks. | |
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| 4. Carrie38 (207) | 1 month ago |  I think I might ask a blind child what colour sounds like and feels like to them and get a sense of how they "see" it and maybe be able to describe it then in a way that speaks to them...I don't know that is a tough question...great discussion topic...reminds me to be thankful for what I have.:-)
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| charmz1005 (363) | 1 month ago | Yup, just like what getbrowser said. Describe it to a manner that relates to them. It really is hard to be blind. | |
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| Carrie38 (207) | 1 month ago | Sorry if I repeated something someone else said...I didn't mean to. I can't even imagine it. | |
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| charmz1005 (363) | 1 month ago | Nope, it's okay, I wasn't trying to say something bad about it. It's just my impression. Sorry if you thought about it that way. I myself repeat the same answer in some discussions. Feel free to say anything, I didn't mean it back there. | |
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| Carrie38 (207) | 1 month ago | No worries! This is a great discussion! Seeing through the eyes of a blind person.:-) | |
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| 5. Trensue (1240) | 1 month ago |  I work with a lot of visually impaired people. They seem to understand color more as a feeling than anything else, probably because of the way we describe them. Yellow is a bright, warm color. They understand warm because that is a sensation they can feel. Bright is up to their personal imagination. I find that having them describe things to me first, helps me to clarify where their frame of reference is. Does that make any sense to you?
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| charmz1005 (363) | 1 month ago | I'm a bit confuse, but I get the idea. Thanks for the nice suggestion. | |
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| Trensue (1240) | 1 month ago | Didn't mean to confuse you - knowing their frame of reference just gives you a starting place. Like "What do you imagine a tiger looks like and then give them cues to use with their other senses. | |
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