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This article examines the developmental theories underlying common misunderstandings and misdiagnoses of clinical issues in congenitally blind children. In particular, a close analysis of the seminal work of Fraiberg is made in an effort to show how certain developmental theories can lead to diagnostic and clinical errors. Alternative understandings of the clinical material in three cases are offered.