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Inference making skill in children with visual impairments
- Source :
- Research in Developmental Disabilities. 104:103713
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- There is a scarcity of research examining the reading comprehension skills of partially-sighted children despite evidence indicating that they lag behind their typically-sighted (TS) peers in reading comprehension ability. We compare the performance of children with visual impairments (VIs) with that of chronological-age matched TS counterparts on a task that requires them to make emotional, temporal and spatial inferences from short texts. The findings indicate that children with VIs exhibit a specific deficit in drawing inferences about spatial information in narratives as opposed to emotional or temporal information. The results are discussed in relation to the role of visual acuity in imagery skills and how this affects the construction of a mental model of a text.
- Subjects :
- 030506 rehabilitation
Visual acuity
Relation (database)
media_common.quotation_subject
Vision Disorders
Aptitude
Inference
Models, Psychological
Task (project management)
Scarcity
03 medical and health sciences
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Narrative
Child
Spatial analysis
media_common
05 social sciences
Clinical Psychology
Reading
Reading comprehension
medicine.symptom
Comprehension
0305 other medical science
Psychology
050104 developmental & child psychology
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08914222
- Volume :
- 104
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Research in Developmental Disabilities
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....46a2455a7950292b625ca002dcbc7c14
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2020.103713