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My children are missing limbs not blind, so I have no experience. I would call your local school, the one your oldest attends and ask them about it. While it is true that they have to train someone to work with this child if they have no one trained, you would have a newly trained person with no experience working with your child. However if there are other blind children in the school district and they have people experienced or better yet a program in place that would be helpful to know. At three the child can get services from the local school district. Because you have a younger child, you will want to learn how this child handles frustration. Often children who have delayed speech get frustrated and some get violent. This would be an issue for your little one, and possibly your three year old if that child is smaller. Also this child will take a lot of attention as he adjusts, can your younger children handle that? Can you? Only you know how your children and your family will handle this. Also remember that things are very different for someone born blind and someone looses thier sight later in life. Some things are easier as they are used to doing things blind, but some things are harder as they have no frame of reference.
I know that in my house a blind child would have issues because my children leave things out, shoes, toys, backpacks, artificial legs, books, etc. All of this would be a danger to a blind child trying to navigate the house. However, I have a friend who has managed to teach her children to keep things put away, a blind child would have no problems in her house.
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