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Gurucharri, Kathleen Agnes – 1973
The purposes of this study were to investigate possible relationships between haptic abilities and first grade reading achievement and to determine whether significant differences in haptic function existed among defined subgroups of first grade subjects. Ninety-nine subjects, stratified by both sex and risk of failure (a combination of reading…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1, Learning Modalities, Reading
Download full textHarper, Ruth Valerie – 1973
This paper examines the developmental stages of haptic perception (the process of recognizing objects by the sense of touch alone), and attempts to clarify some conflicting results of studies of the effects of memory and object type. The paper also presents a specific study of haptic perception in 144 preschool and kindergarten children from…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Psychology, Imagination, Kindergarten Children
Schmitt, Terry Lyndell – 1978
A review of the literature on the spatial functioning of the blind, the results of a questionnaire of 75 sighted college students and their parents, and results of a study of 87 blind and seeing adults' performance on three spatial tasks are presented. The review suggested that adventitiously blind individuals perform better than congenitally…
Descriptors: Adventitious Impairments, Blindness, Congenital Impairments, Developmental Stages
