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ERIC Number: EJ988586
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0891-4222
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Are There Relationships among Different Spatial Skills of Individuals with Blindness?
Koustriava, Eleni; Papadopoulos, Konstantinos
Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, v33 n6 p2164-2176 Nov-Dec 2012
The aim of this study was to detect the possible relationships between various spatial skills of individuals with blindness. Twenty-eight individuals with blindness participated in five experiments that examined the body knowledge, laterality, directionality, perspective-taking, spatial coding of the near space and spatial knowledge of the far space. According to the results a positive correlation between body knowledge and directionality has emerged. Moreover, body knowledge and spatial coding of near space are found to be predictors of perspective-taking, while directionality and perspective-taking are found to be predictors of spatial coding of near space, and directionality and perspective-taking predictors of spatial knowledge of far space. This finding suggest that future studies should seriously take into account the possibility that the development of a certain skill could in fact be the result of the development of another skill/s. Moreover, the findings support the notion that a delay in the development of a spatial skill may not necessarily be a result of the visual impairment itself but of the incomplete development of another spatial skill. (Contains 5 figures and 7 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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