Spatial Concepts and Balance Performance: Motor Learning in Blind and Visually Impaired Children

Abstract

The present study addresses the main problems of blind and visually impaired children's education in relation to their motor-development problems and the ways that they can be solved. We have tried to identify factors that produce motor-development differences between them and normal children; define educational strategies that contribute best to their motor development; and investigate methodically the problem considered by Warren (1977)—the heterogeneity of blind and visually impaired children's samples—through design and multivariate analysis. We evaluated balance and spatial concepts using Leonard and Hill's test. We used a stimulative program and compared the blind and visually impaired children's performances to the visually normal children's performances.

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