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Peer reviewedSimpkins, Katherine E. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1979
Using Jean Piaget's theory of spatial development, a study was undertaken to identify the development of spatial concepts in 48 blind, partially sighted, and sighted 4-to-7-year-old children through the use of tactual recognition of shapes. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Blindness, Concept Formation, Exceptional Child Research, Object Manipulation
Peer reviewedSimpkins, Katherine E. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1979
The study explored the concept of space through the tactual discrimination of household objects in 48 4-to-7-year-old blind, partially sighted, and sighted children. (PHR)
Descriptors: Blindness, Education, Exceptional Child Research, Object Manipulation
Peer reviewedSicilian, S. P. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1988
Various counting tasks were presented to 24 congenitally, totally blind children, aged 3-13, to determine the behaviors employed to ensure accurate counting. Three dimensions of tactile strategies were found, including "scanning,""organizing," and "partitioning." A developmental progression in the ontogenesis of each…
Descriptors: Blindness, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Computation
