title: Visually impaired children's visual characteristics and intelligence.
abstract: The results are presented of the mentally normal, visually impaired, Braille-educated population of Dutch and Dutch-speaking Belgian children on verbal and non-verbal tests of intelligence and school achievement. The children were aged between six and 15 years old. Their visual characteristics were strongly inter-related and correlated similarly with the test scores. Colour perception did not contribute to the intelligence test score variation after controlling for near visual acuity. Congenital blindness had a positive influence on verbal memory and a negative influence on spatial ability.
authors.affiliation: State University Utrecht, Psychonomic Department/Trans II, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dekker
authors.forename: F D
authors.initials: FD
authors.lastname: Koole
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001766:Blindness / Q000151:congenital / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003119:Color Perception Tests; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007361:Intelligence Tests; D008297:Male; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology*; D014787:Vision Tests; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014794:Visual Fields