Which is a phase in adjustment to blindness?

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Which is a phase in adjustment to blindness?

Adjustment to blindness involves emotional and psychological responses as a person adapts to vision loss. The sequence described—trauma, shock and denial, mourning/withdrawal, succumbing/depression, reassessment/reaffirmation, coping and mobilization, and self-acceptance—captures how many individuals process the change and move toward independence. In orientation and mobility practice, recognizing this progression helps you tailor support, from acknowledging feelings and fears to building mobility confidence and self-reliance. The other terms relate to hearing loss or sensory localization rather than the stages people go through when adjusting to blindness: localization is about locating sounds, while postlingually deaf and deafened describe when or the degree of hearing loss, not the adjustment process to vision loss.

Adjustment to blindness involves emotional and psychological responses as a person adapts to vision loss. The sequence described—trauma, shock and denial, mourning/withdrawal, succumbing/depression, reassessment/reaffirmation, coping and mobilization, and self-acceptance—captures how many individuals process the change and move toward independence. In orientation and mobility practice, recognizing this progression helps you tailor support, from acknowledging feelings and fears to building mobility confidence and self-reliance. The other terms relate to hearing loss or sensory localization rather than the stages people go through when adjusting to blindness: localization is about locating sounds, while postlingually deaf and deafened describe when or the degree of hearing loss, not the adjustment process to vision loss.

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