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Stephens, Beth; And Others – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1976
Descriptors: Blindness, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Download full textStephens, Beth; Simpkins, Katherine – 1974
The performance of 75 congenitally blind and 75 sighted subjects (6- to 18-years-old) was compared on 32 Piagetian measures of reasoning, moral judgment, and moral conduct. Among major findings were that blind Ss did not achieve the reasoning processes characteristic of concrete operational thought with the facility or completion that would be…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior, Blindness, Children
Stephens, Beth; And Others – 1977
Thirteen congenitally blind students (6-18 years old) who participated in a 2-year Piagetian-oriented remedial program experienced significant gains on 22 of 26 reasoning variables (as measured by a Piagetian battery), compared to a non-treatment group of Ss which achieved significant gains on seven of 26 variables. Results suggested the need for…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Blindness, Classification, Cognitive Development
