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The role of tactile maps in mobility training

Mark Blades

Christopher Spencer

Tactile maps can have both immediate and long term benefits in helping visually impaired children to find their way through their environment and to acquire spatial abilities. In a series of studies (1991-92), reported in this article, the authors established that young visually impaired children can understand and use tactile maps. The children adopted a variety of strategies for acquiring information from a map, some of which were more effective than others. In the final study, it was established that training in a simple strategy can improve children's performance in a map task.

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