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Returning means giving something back or putting it where it belongs when you're finished.
Hidden Curriculum of Vision
Returning
Understanding that borrowed, shared, or used items should be given back to the appropriate person or returned to their designated location when finished. While it often follows borrowing, it's broader than that. It includes returning borrowed items, putting materials back where they belong, completing responsibilities, and restoring order. It's a concept that supports independence, organization, trustworthiness, and community participation. Applicable Learners Blind Low Vision CVI Multiple Disabilities Autism AAC...
Also known as: Giving Something Back
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Why Vision Matters
Children who are sighted frequently observe people returning items throughout the day. They watch classmates return library books, put away classroom supplies, place toys back on shelves, return shopping carts, hang coats on hooks, and give borrowed objects back to friends. They also notice visual organization systems such as labeled bins, shelves, cubbies,...
Why This Matters Long-Term
Understanding returning supports reciprocal communication, relationships, participation, self-regulation, problem solving, and increasingly independent social judgment across school, home, work, and community settings.
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