Concept/Cognitive Development

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ARTICLES

Bigelow, A. (1990). Relationship between the development of language and thought in young blind children. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 84(8), 414-419.
Bigelow, A. (1992). Blind children's ability to predict what another sees. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 85(4), 181-184.
Bigelow, A. (1995). The effect of blindness on the early development of the self. In P. Rochat et al. (Eds.), The self in infancy: Theory and research (Vol. 112, pp. 327-347). Amsterdam, Netherlands: North-Holland/Elsevier Science Publishers.
Brambring, M. & Troster, H. (1994). The assessment of cognitive development in blind infants and preschoolers. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 88, 9-18.
Brambring, M. (1989). Methodological and conceptual issues in the construction of a developmental test for blind infants and preschoolers. In M. Brambring & F. Loesel (Eds.), Children at risk: Assessment, longitudinal research, and intervention (pp. 136-154). Berlin, Germany: Walter De Gruyter.
Dunlea, A., & Andersen, E. (1992). The emergence process: Conceptual and linguistic influences on morphological development. First Language, 12, 95-115.
Farrenkopf, C., & Davidson, I. (1992). The development of perspective-taking abilities in young blind children. RE:view, 24(1), 7-22.
Fraiberg, S., Siegel, B., & Gibson, R. (1966). The role of sound in the search behavior of a blind infant. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 21, 327-357.
Hughes, M., Dote-Kwan, J., & Dolendo, J. (1998). A closer look at the cognitive play of preschoolers with visual impairments in the home. Exceptional Children, 64, 451-462.
Leclerc, C., Saint-Amour, D., Lavoie, M.E., Lassond, M., & Lepore, F. (2000). Brain functional reorganization in early blind humans revealed by auditory event-related potentials. NeuroReport, 11, 545-550.
Minter, M., Hobson, R., & Bishop, M. (1998). Congenital visual impairment and 'theory of mind'. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 16(2), 183-196.
Mulford, R. (1988). First words of the blind. In M. Smith & J. L. Locke (Eds.), The emergent lexicon: The child's development of a linguistic vocabulary (pp. 293-338). New York: Academic Press.
Rogers, S., & Puchalski, C. (1984a). Social characteristics of visually impaired infants play. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 3(4), 52-56. testing edit form
Rogers, S., & Puchalski, C. (1984b). Development of symbolic play in visually impaired young children. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 3(4), 57-63.
Rogers, S., & Puchalski, C. (1988). Development of object permanence in visually impaired infants. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 82, 137-142.
Urwin, C. (1984). Communication in infancy and the emergence of language in blind children. In R. Schiefelbusch & J. Pickar (Eds.), The Acquisition of Communicative Competence (pp. 479-524). Baltimore: University Park Press.
Warren, D. H., & Hatton, D. D. (in press). Cognitive development in visually impaired children. In I. Rapin & S. Segalowitz (Eds.), Handbook of Neuropsychology (2 ed., Vol. 7). New York: Elsevier.

BOOKS

Dunlea, A. (1989). Vision and the emergence of meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

VIDEOS


Visually Impaired Preschool Services in Louisville, Kentucky has produced the following videos (from the Can Do! Series)
Learning About the World: Concept Development   $44.95
Blind children's knowledge of the world they live in and what is going on around them can be greatly inhibited. This video is designed to help parents understand the importance of early concept development and what they can do to help.  (16 minutes)
VIPS
1229 Garvin Place
Louisville, KY 40203
Attn: Can Do Series
888-636-VIPS
http://www.vips.org



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