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AUTHOR
Oriana Orlandi
Forme versus texture de stimuli tactiles élémentaires : quelle dimension est privilégiée par l’enfant aveugle ou voyant ?
International audience
Understanding of tactile pictures in visual impaired children
The present PhD aims at understanding how Visual Impaired (VI) children process the tactile pictures that illustrate the tactile books specially designed for them. Our work is organized around two main axes of analysis. The first axis concentrates on the child who explores the tactile images, while the second axis focuses on the impact that the properties of these images can have on children’s haptic processing. Our researches included children presenting various degrees of visual impairment but without any associated disorders (in particular, without any cognitive delay), distinguishing early blind children from children with low vision. We also compared their performance with those of sig…