Interação social, comunicação e linguagem em crianças cegas

Abstract

The first steps of social development, communication and language at the first childhood are described. The interferences that the vision lack can have on these developmental processes are examined, as well as the idiosyncretic aspects that it introduce in the infantile behavior. Finaly, the possibilities of compensations and alternative developmental pathways that the blind children and their parents may track to cope with these difficulties are discussed.