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Trust means knowing who you can count on and being someone other people can count on, too.
Hidden Curriculum of Vision
Trusting Others and Being Trustworthy
Understanding how trust is built, maintained, and repaired through honesty, reliability, respect, safe choices, and consistent actions—and recognizing both when to trust others and how to become someone others can trust. Applicable Learners Blind Low Vision CVI Multiple Disabilities Autism AAC Users Deafblind Developmental Delays Intellectual Disabilities Elementary Students Secondary Students Emergent Communicators Related Concepts Responsibility Honesty Friendship Respect Safety Self-Advocacy Asking Permission...
Also known as: Trustworthiness
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Why Vision Matters
Children who are sighted constantly observe trust being built through everyday interactions. They see adults keep promises, classmates return borrowed materials, friends comfort one another, teachers consistently follow routines, and family members help each other. They also observe facial expressions, body language, gestures, and repeated interactions that...
Why This Matters Long-Term
Understanding trusting others and being trustworthy 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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