[nfbwatlk] Is this a proven fact?

[Mike Freeman]

Since people with ROP run from having only blindness to having profound 
brain damage, I should think that it would be extremely difficult to 
make any generlizations regarding spatial ability or lack thereof. So 
I've always considered it an old wives' tale primarily cooked up by 
those with low expectations of the blind -- blind and sighted alike.

However, I do believe that such individuals exist. Else how to explain 
those sighted persons that get totally lost. But I think that to admit 
this does not necessarily imply that we are wrong to at least initially 
expect that blind trainees can learn spatial concepts. As with 
everything else, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

I do wonder in the case Carl described, though, whether the person in 
question knew her left from her right when she was sighted or whether 
she could locate by sound when sighted. Of course, we'll never know.

Mike

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kaye Kipp
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  Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:39 PM
  Subject: [nfbwatlk] Is this a proven fact?


  I heard that people with ROP tend to have more difficulty with spatial 
orientation.  Does anyone know if that's actually been researched?  I 
get around all right, but when I'm tired or distracted, I swear, I could 
get disoriented on a postage stamp.  lol.

  Kaye


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Since people with ROP run from having only blindness to having profound brain damage, I should think that it would be extremely difficult to make any generlizations regarding spatial ability or lack thereof. So I've always considered it an old wives' tale primarily cooked up by those with low expectations of the blind -- blind and sighted alike.
 
However, I do believe that such individuals exist. Else how to explain those sighted persons that get totally lost. But I think that to admit this does not necessarily imply that we are wrong to at least initially expect that blind trainees can learn spatial concepts. As with everything else, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
 
I do wonder in the case Carl described, though, whether the person in question knew her left from her right when she was sighted or whether she could locate by sound when sighted. Of course, we'll never know.
 
Mike
 
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[nfbwatlk] Is this a proven fact?
I heard that people with ROP tend to have more difficulty with spatial orientation.  Does anyone know if that's actually been researched?  I get around all right, but when I'm tired or distracted, I swear, I could get disoriented on a postage stamp.  lol.
Kaye
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