Erwerb einfacher und komplexer Fähigkeiten der Perspektivenübernahme bei blinden und sehenden Kinder
Final Report Abstract
Although sighted autistic children and congenitally blind children reveal similar symptoms, the reasons for their emergence are different (equifinalism), making it wrong to talk about a 'common pathway'. Most researchers assume that autism in sighted children is based on a disorder of information processing, even though neurological confirmation is still mostly unattainable. Congenitally blind children, in contrast, face restrictions in information input from spatial, physical and also social signals, and this leads to delays in but not to disorders of information processing. Presumably, the developmental trajectory of blind and sighted children takes an analogue course. Children first master their physical and spatial environment before they go on to tackle the complex social world, although both developmental processes do overlap. Due to their lack of vision, congenitally blind children require far more time to acquire their physical and spatial environment, and this also leads to a delay in the acquisition of the social world (the theory of mind). These delays are even more severe in blind children with further impairments such as a learning disability. From our scientific standpoint, we see no justification in evaluating the special socialcognitive features of blind children as 'clinical features'. Instead, they indicate the developmental problems that congenitally blind children have in acquiring these abilities.
Publications
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Brambring, M.
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Brambring, M.
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Brambring, M.
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Brambring, M.
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Brambring, M. und Stahn, D.
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Stahn, D. and M. Brambring
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Brambring, M.
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Asbrock, D.
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Brambring, M. und Asbrock, D.
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Brambring, M.
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Brambring, M. and D. Asbrock
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Hobson, P. R.
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Brambring, M.
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Brambring, M.
