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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. "The only difference between yesterday and tomorrow are the decisions you make today." 1-800-264-0871 |
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In article , honeybee says...
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. I remember a couple of people being frustrated with me as a child not following their pointing also. I came to the conclusion that the thing was that they didn't understand the difference in physicial perspective (what you see when you point is different spatially from what someone else sees when they follow *your* finger), and that I was too outspoken and concrete-thinking a child to either compensate for the difference on my own or to pretend that I did know what was being pointed at. Banty |
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"honeybee" wrote in message om... 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). Suzie Egg. |
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Maybe she needs an eye exam??
"honeybee" wrote in message om... 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. "The only difference between yesterday and tomorrow are the decisions you make today." 1-800-264-0871 |
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