On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 05:06:57 GMT, "eggs"
wrote:


"honeybee" wrote in message
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My granddaughter doesn't seem to be able to figure out what it is that
I am pointing at. She is 7 yrs old. She is a bright child (top of her
class). When I point out something in the room or even further away,
asking her to look at it or see something interesting that I want to
bring to her attention, she cannot seem to see where I am pointing.
What is this problem? She has trouble finding things that she's
misplaced too.


This is so frustrating, isn't it? I don't know what the problem is, but
my almost 3 year old son has it as well. He can see fine and hear fine,
but he can't follow a pointed finger to save his life. Even if I am
sitting on the couch and say "look at that!" while pointing at the TV,
he looks all around the room randomly searching for whatever the heck
I'm trying to get him to look at, and has no clue that I mean the TV.

If I say 'look at the TV", he can do that fine, however. I know he
really doesn't understand what pointing means, because he gets that "Uh
oh, Mom's gone crazy again" look in his eye when I persist in trying to
get him to get it. DS also seems pretty normal in most other respects,
so I just assume that he is missing the 'follow the pointing finger'
wiring in his brain, like being tone deaf or color blind or something.
I don't really see it as being a problem, more of an annoyance. We do
really notice it with DS however, as he has a sister who is 18 months
younger than him and she's been able to follow the pointed finger since
she was about 12 months old. In summary, I don't know what the problem
is, but we have one too! I'd also be interested to know if it has any
significance (I have asked DS's ped about this, but he just seemed to
think it was a meaningless idosyncracy).

We have the same here. The 3 year old can't see anything that is
pointed to and usually needs me to tell him the colour of it before he
can identify what I'm talking about. His younger sister and older
brother both have no trouble following my pointed finger. I'm
guessing that #2 has his brain wired differently, he certainly seems
to be more creative and artistic than the other two so it wouldn't
surprise me if he's more of a left brain thinker.

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