Recent investigations of remedies for the extreme passivity shown by some blind children with other impairments have been undertaken by the Danish teacher-therapist Lilli Nielsen. This article presents an account of the use of one of Nielsen's pieces of equipment with a totally blind child who, at age 3, was showing no sign of independent spontaneous movement while at nursery school.
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