ATTEMPTS TO MAKE A PROFILE FOR THE YOUNG BLIND CHILD IMmediately raise the general question of how we would define satisfactory development in such a child. It is our hope that blind children will eventually develop in such a way that they can adapt to the sighted world and bring their own special contribution to it—their great sensitivity to sound and their ability to widen our observation of the world by the freshness of their approach, based as it is on the use of less usual sensory modalities. But, particularly in the early years, the blind child has a difficult and circuitous path before him; he needs time if he is to organize his outer experience in his own fashion and if he is to come to terms with his inner needs. Therefore at nursery school age even relative adaptation to sighted norms cannot be our main criterion; it could be said that the child who makes such an adaptation too effectively does some violence to his inner needs. The Profile for the blind child also alerts the observer to specific questions, but,