A Multidimensional, Multisensory and Comprehensive Rehabilitation Intervention to Improve Spatial Functioning in the Visually Impaired Child: A Community Case Study

Congenital visual impairment may have a negative impact on spatial abilities and result in severe delays in perceptual, social, motor, and cognitive skills across life span. Despite several evidences have highlighted the need for an early introduction of re-habilitation interventions, such intervent...

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Published inFrontiers in neuroscience Vol. 14; p. 768
Main Authors Morelli, Federica, Aprile, Giorgia, Cappagli, Giulia, Luparia, Antonella, Decortes, Francesco, Gori, Monica, Signorini, Sabrina
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Lausanne Frontiers Research Foundation 24.07.2020
Frontiers Media S.A
Subjects
Age
Blindness
Caregivers
Children
Children & youth
cognition
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Cognitive development
development
Disability
Intervention
Life span
Localization
Mobility
Motor skill
multisensory
Neuroscience
Rehabilitation
Sensory integration
spatial cognition
Visual impairment
visually impaired children
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Summary:Congenital visual impairment may have a negative impact on spatial abilities and result in severe delays in perceptual, social, motor, and cognitive skills across life span. Despite several evidences have highlighted the need for an early introduction of re-habilitation interventions, such interventions are rarely adapted to children’s visual capabilities and very few studies have been conducted to assess their long-term efficacy. In this work, we present a case study of a visually impaired child enrolled in a newly developed re-habilitation intervention aimed at improving the overall development through the diversification of re-habilitation activities based on visual potential and developmental profile, with a focus on spatial functioning. We argue that intervention for visually impaired children should be a) adapted to their visual capabilities in order to increase re-habilitation outcomes, b) multi-interdisciplinary and multidimensional, in order to improve adaptive abilities across development, c) multisensory, to promote the integration of different perceptual information coming from the environment.
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Reviewed by: Benedetta Heimler, IDC, Israel; Gordon Neale Dutton, GCUClinic, Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom
Edited by: Claudia Lunghi, UMR 8248 Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, France
This article was submitted to Perception Science, a section of the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience
ISSN:1662-453X
1662-4548
1662-453X
DOI:10.3389/fnins.2020.00768