Discusses and illustrates problems with the interpretation of visual materials used in rural development campaigns in developing countries. The association between pictorial experience and pictorial literacy is examined, and guidelines are suggested for visual communicators. (LRW)

Cortical blindness is defined and its diagnosis is explained. Guidelines and sample activities are presented for use in a cognitive/visual/multi-sensory stimulation program to produce progress in cortically blind infants. The importance of using the eyes from birth through early development in order to form the nerve pathways responsible for…