Are there relationships among different spatial skills of individuals with blindness?

作者：Koustriava Eleni; Papadopoulos Konstantinos^*

来源：Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2012, 33(6): 2164-2176.

DOI：10.1016/j.ridd.2012.06.009

• Visual impairments
• Body knowledge
• Directionality
• Perspective-taking
• Spatial coding
• Spatial knowledge

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.

• 出版日期2012-12