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...claims for the gadget-laden crib typify a growing trend in child psychology toward forced early education and "programmed enrichment." Now Harvard Pediatrician Richard Feinbloom has strongly urged the American Academy of Pediatrics to take a stand against it. At the organization's recent annual meeting, he maintained that elaborate educational toys for infants are no be' er playthings than pots and pans. As a matter of fact, he said, their use, especially in the elaborate new "crib environments," may endanger normal intellectual and emotional development...
...follower of famed Swiss Psychologist Jean Piaget, Feinbloom believes that systematic infant training generally fails to speed learning-with or without special toys. Even when children do acquire some skills early-counting, for example, or understanding the principle of cause and effect-they soon forget them, and rarely can they apply this knowledge to new situations. In any case, knowledge gained unusually early has no value over the long run. Kittens, for example, understand "object permanence"-the idea that things stay the same even when they are out of sight -before human infants do, but "they cannot do very much...
Children and Chicks. Beyond that, Feinbloom believes that teaching babies is no substitute for playing with them; turning them over "to a machine wired up for sound and light" deprives them of the warm parent-child give-and-take that is crucial to emotional health and to eventual academic achievement...
People with corrected vision of 20/200 or worse are legally blind. Even with magnifying glasses or special reading spectacles, they cannot read ordinary newspaper or magazine print. Some 420,000 Americans fall into this category; to help them see, Manhattan Optometrist Dr. William Feinbloom has developed "reading binoculars" that magnify 3.5 times and enable many of the legally blind who are not totally sightless to read with relative ease...
...Feinbloom's binoculars are telemicroscopes mounted bifocal-style in the lower portion of ordinary prescription glasses. Made up of four lenses (one of them a "doublet" of two lenses cemented together) separated by three sealed air spaces, the tiny, high-powered units not only provide magnification but also correct aberrations. They are focused so that the lines of vision of both eyes converge at the normal reading distance of 16 inches. Since he developed the new glasses (price $300), Feinbloom has tried them out on 360 "blind" people. He has found fewer than ten whom they failed to help...