Grooming skills of a visually impaired Child

“Grooming is a very important aspect of social life for everyone”. As a sighted infant, may face problem in maintaining hair, face, nail before training. In the case of visually impaired child, face more problems because of their absence of sight. Even though visually impaired students, to know how to take care of their appearance can only help to boost their self-confidence. There are experiences and concepts casually and incidentally learned by sighted students that must be systematically and sequentially taught to the visually impaired student. The grooming for visually impaired students is not the same as for sighted students. Indeed, it is much larger and more complex. Thus activities of daily living include all those activities which people do every day. Training a visually impaired person in these activities would enable him to become self-reliant, independent and more confident in his routine activities. Although these activities are not an end in itself, these certainly are a very essential means toward complete, meaningful and comprehensive rehabilitation. By recognising the needs and requirements of the blind child particularly at pre-primary level, makes the teacher or the care taker to make a correct plan for the child. This study makes the child to learn the appropriate skills like Combing and care of hair, dressing and understanding, shaving, using facial cream and food wear identification.