A friend of mine, M., is a psychologist for a school district. As such, she is required to perform an assessment on all of the children at certain intervals. Part of the assessment consists of a series of questions.
She was performing the assessment on a boy of later elementary years who had been blind since birth.
One of the questions was to name a reason that we should turn the lights off when we leave a room.
He didn’t understand the question.
So, she went through a lengthy explanation of sensory perception, and how some people see things, and objects have a color and shape that we see; but we need light in order to see, because there’s not always enough of it, and we can’t see when there’s not enough of it.
He told her, “I want to leave the lights on all the time, for anyone who wants to see.”
She took a moment of thought. It wasn’t one of the acceptable answers for the assessment.
“Good answer,” she said. “I’ll take that.”
She was performing the assessment on a boy of later elementary years who had been blind since birth.
One of the questions was to name a reason that we should turn the lights off when we leave a room.
He didn’t understand the question.
So, she went through a lengthy explanation of sensory perception, and how some people see things, and objects have a color and shape that we see; but we need light in order to see, because there’s not always enough of it, and we can’t see when there’s not enough of it.
He told her, “I want to leave the lights on all the time, for anyone who wants to see.”
She took a moment of thought. It wasn’t one of the acceptable answers for the assessment.
“Good answer,” she said. “I’ll take that.”
2 comments:
Sweet. Glad she knew the right answer when she heard it.
I thought it was really cool that the kid already knew that he wasn't going to be able to see, but wanted everyone else to be able to.
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