Sleep, Serve & Return, and Social Emotional Development: Vision AND Developmental Psychology with Carol Puchalski

About this episode

Cathy interviews Carol Benson Puchalski about the importance of social emotional development for caregivers and young children with blindness and low vision.

Cathy interviews Carol Benson Puchalski. Carol and Cathy discuss the importance of social emotional development between caregivers and young children with blindness and low vision. Carol shares her longtime experience learning about social/emotional development of the young child through research and as a consultant for the programs at Anchor Center for Blind Children in Denver, Colorado. Carol discusses the importance of learning about early brain development and how social emotional experiences can last a lifetime. More information and videos to share are available at https://developingchild.harvard.edu/?s=Infant+mental+health and https://www.zerotothree.org/issue-areas/infant-and-early-childhood-mental-health/ Jenny, Cathy & Paige discuss how unique real-life experiences with sleeping can be and the benefits of the resources shared by Carol as social media is not always reliable. Cathy and Paige discuss “serve and return” research as well as the goal of responsive parenting for children with blindness and low vision. We love voicemail! Please leave us a message: https://www.speakpipe.com/FeelingThisLife Children who are blind and low “Vision AND” have additional needs may…

People in this episode

Host: Cathy

Guest: Carol Benson Puchalski

Topics covered

• social emotional development
• caregivers and children
• blindness and low vision
• early brain development
• responsive parenting
• serve and return
• early intervention services

Keywords

• social emotional development
• blindness
• low vision
• early intervention
• responsive parenting
• serve and return
• brain development
• caregivers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anchor Center for Blind Children, Harvard University, Zero to Three

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