Practitioners should, therefore, ensure that these children can contribute to discussions and participate in activities in ways that are appropriate to them.
Children diagnosed as 'totally blind' can find it hard to differentiate between day and night, and often have related sleeping difficulties. Discussions and activities about day and night can help them to establish the difference and make sense of routines. Discussions can explore different activities for specific times of the day, for example, when we eat (and what food we eat at different times of the day), take a bath, what times family members return home and go to bed.
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