ecological self

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The initial indication of blind infants' awareness of their ecologicalself is their reaching for objects on external cues.
The ecologicalself is concerned with the self in relation to the local physical environment.
Thus, blind infants' have a compromised ability to acquire ecologicalself-knowledge.
Blind infants' ecologicalself-knowledge is more fundamentally challenged because blindness impairs infants' spatial awareness and understanding of self in relation to the physical world.
But whatever the merits of this argument with respect to small-motor control, it does not apply to the layout of the environment and the ecologicalself.
Despite the early development of interpersonal and ecologicalself-knowledge, their coordination in normal infants occurs toward the end of the first year with the emergence of joint attention.
The findings indicate that difficulties in ecologicalself-knowledge delay blind infants' development of joint attention, yet difficulties in the social - emotional realm may further impede their attainment of joint attention.
Interpersonal and ecologicalself-knowledge normally develop in harmony, and perceptions relevant to them can coexist in the same events.
Neisser (1988; 1995) has written about this in the framework of what he calls the "ecologicalself," that which situates the self within a given physical environment.
As a practical method of farming, biodynamics embodies the ideal of ever-increasing ecologicalself-sufficiency just as with modern agro-ecology, but includes ethical-spiritual considerations.
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