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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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Autores principales: Morelli, Federica, Aprile, Giorgia, Cappagli, Giulia, Luparia, Antonella, Decortes, Francesco, Gori, Monica, Signorini, Sabrina
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7393219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32792904
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.00768
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author Morelli, Federica
Aprile, Giorgia
Cappagli, Giulia
Luparia, Antonella
Decortes, Francesco
Gori, Monica
Signorini, Sabrina
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Aprile, Giorgia
Cappagli, Giulia
Luparia, Antonella
Decortes, Francesco
Gori, Monica
Signorini, Sabrina
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description 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, to improve adaptive abilities across development, (c) multisensory, to promote the integration of different perceptual information coming from the environment.
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spelling pubmed-73932192020-08-12 A Multidimensional, Multisensory and Comprehensive Rehabilitation Intervention to Improve Spatial Functioning in the Visually Impaired Child: A Community Case Study Morelli, Federica Aprile, Giorgia Cappagli, Giulia Luparia, Antonella Decortes, Francesco Gori, Monica Signorini, Sabrina Front Neurosci Neuroscience 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, to improve adaptive abilities across development, (c) multisensory, to promote the integration of different perceptual information coming from the environment. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7393219/ /pubmed/32792904 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.00768 Text en Copyright © 2020 Morelli, Aprile, Cappagli, Luparia, Decortes, Gori and Signorini. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Neuroscience
Morelli, Federica
Aprile, Giorgia
Cappagli, Giulia
Luparia, Antonella
Decortes, Francesco
Gori, Monica
Signorini, Sabrina
A Multidimensional, Multisensory and Comprehensive Rehabilitation Intervention to Improve Spatial Functioning in the Visually Impaired Child: A Community Case Study
title A Multidimensional, Multisensory and Comprehensive Rehabilitation Intervention to Improve Spatial Functioning in the Visually Impaired Child: A Community Case Study
title_full A Multidimensional, Multisensory and Comprehensive Rehabilitation Intervention to Improve Spatial Functioning in the Visually Impaired Child: A Community Case Study
title_fullStr A Multidimensional, Multisensory and Comprehensive Rehabilitation Intervention to Improve Spatial Functioning in the Visually Impaired Child: A Community Case Study
title_full_unstemmed A Multidimensional, Multisensory and Comprehensive Rehabilitation Intervention to Improve Spatial Functioning in the Visually Impaired Child: A Community Case Study
title_short A Multidimensional, Multisensory and Comprehensive Rehabilitation Intervention to Improve Spatial Functioning in the Visually Impaired Child: A Community Case Study
title_sort multidimensional, multisensory and comprehensive rehabilitation intervention to improve spatial functioning in the visually impaired child: a community case study
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7393219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32792904
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.00768
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