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Podcast: Growing up Blind Conversations with Dr. G
Episode: Saturday Supplement Podcast of Blog Post Review of Aki 2007 of sensorimotor training for VI kids
Description: Send a textThis study compared the running times of two groups of children with visual impairments, those taught at home and those taught by a physiotherapist at school. They improved running times, but were still significantly slower than sighted children the same age.This review explores how the measuring of running in children who cannot see the path ahead and are not provided tactile path information and being happy about the outcome of significantly poorer running times compared to sighted peers- is asking everyone to accept that nothing can be done to improve actual...