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A Unique Child: Inclusion - Face value

Face blindness – not being able to recognise familiar people’s faces – is a very misunderstood condition, explains Caroline Vollans

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In his book The Mind’s Eye (Picador 2010), eminent British neurologist and prolific author Oliver Sacks writes, ‘Being social beings we need to recognise each other and we do so in all sorts of ways: by the way people move, the way they dress, their voices, where they are, but particularly we are very good at recognising people’s faces. Well, when I say we I mean the majority of people. There are some people who are not so good at recognising faces and, in extreme cases, people may not recognise their husband, their wife, their children, their oldest friends, and they are called face blind.’

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