The effective cooperation of school and home can insure meaningful and safe environment for the visually impaired child in which to develop and learn. However, developing safety responsibilities in children is a long, continuous and sometimes unsatisfying task. Responsible adults can effectively “set the safety stage.”
To insure good safety practices in adult years it is essential that more than a set of “do's and don'ts” be learned. Practices will be built on attitudes developed during childhood. The recognition of the rights and responsibilities of ourselves and others—care versus carelessness—is a prime rule.
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