Predicting Efficiency of Travel in Young, Visually Impaired Children from Their Other Spatial Skills

Abstract

The study's objective was to test ways of predicting how efficiently visually impaired children will learn travel skills. A criteria checklist of spatial skills was developed for close-body space, local space, and geographical/travel space Interrelationships between these skills were studied. A comparison was made between predictors of efficient learning including subjective ratings of teachers, personal qualities and factors of children studied, and ratings of individual spatial skills.