Psychological and pedagogical assessment of psychomotor development of a blind infant

Abstract

The period from birth to the end of the third year of life is the age of the fastest physical and
mental development of the child. The article deals with the peculiarities of the psychological
and pedagogical evaluation of the psychomotor development of blind children aged from 3
months to 3 years (this age period is sensitive to the development of the motor sphere). The
complex process of mental development in early childhood depends largely on living conditions
and educational influences. Visual deprivation affects the course of mental development.
Lack of sensory and social stimuli can slow down and reject emotional and intellectual
development. Systematic assessment of the child’s development is one of the important tasks
of early intervention, as a plan for the assistance program is developed on the basis of this
assessment. The general level of psychomotor development reflects the degree of maturation
of the central nervous system in combination with the formation of the mental sphere and
has its own characteristics for each age period. Psychomotor development of the child reflects