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Working memory and braille reading of children with congenital visual impairment

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2015, 16(1), pp.331-349
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

이해성 1 WHA-SOO KIM 1 Lee Hae-Gyun 1

1대구대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between working memory development and Braille reading development of the visually impaired children, according to their age. To this end, subjects of 7 visually impaired children with chronological age of 10 and 7 visually impaired children with chronological age of 12 were sampled, to investigate their ability of working memory and development of braille reading and to evaluate the correlation of working memory and braille reading. The results of this research are as follows: First, for the case of the working memory task, the 10-year-old visually impaired children showed similar performance score to the 12-year-olds in no load condition task and number repetition task, but lower performance score in the load-increased single load condition tasks. Second, in case of Braille reading assignments, it was confirmed that the development of Braille reading is accomplished between age 10 and 12, through the fact that their performance scores showed significant difference. Third, according to the examination of correlation between working memory and Braille reading, the 10-year-old visually impaired children showed a significant positive correlation between phonological working memory and Braille reading. The 12 year-old visually impaired children showed significantly positive correlations both between functional working memory and Braille reading development, and between phonological working memory and Braille reading development.

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