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Peer reviewedKnowlton, Marie – Exceptional Children, 1997
Visual scanning behavior and efficiency of 22 children with visual disabilities and 25 children without disabilities (ages 3.5 to 10 years) were studied. Significant differences were found between groups in length of scan path and number of objects reported, but no significant differences in scanning efficiency. Coordinated binocular eye movements…
Descriptors: Children, Partial Vision, Vision, Visual Discrimination
Peer reviewedMarkham, R.; Wyver, S. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1996
The ability of 16 school-age children with visual impairments and their sighted peers to recognize faces was compared. Although no intergroup differences were found in ability to identify entire faces, the visually impaired children were at a disadvantage when part of the face, especially the eyes, was not visible. Degree of visual acuity also…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Partial Vision, Recognition (Psychology)
Peer reviewedUngar, S.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1994
Eighty-eight children (either totally blind or with residual vision) estimated directions between landmarks in a large scale layout of objects. Children experienced the layout either directly by walking around it or indirectly by examining a tactile map. Use of tactile maps considerably facilitated the performance of the blind children. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Blindness, Children, Maps, Partial Vision
