title: Metaphoric Car Drawings By a 12-Year-Old Congenitally Blind Girl.
abstract: A 12-year-old congenitally-blind girl drew a car moving, stationary, and braking. For stationary, she put the wheels inside the car and, for braking, drew the wheels as rough rectangles. At the age verbal metaphor is understood (Winner, 1988), the girl invented metaphoric drawings. In these, what is shown is not what is meant. In late childhood, metaphor may be understood similarly in pictures and words and by the sighted and blind.
authors.affiliation: National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Hsin-Yi
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Chao
authors.affiliation: University of Toronto, Canada kennedy@utsc.utoronto.ca.
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Kennedy
mesh_terms: D001336:Automobiles; D001766:Blindness / Q000151:congenital* / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003210:Concept Formation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D019365:Metaphor; D009039:Motion Perception; D012682:Sensory Aids
keywords: blind; child; metaphor; outline; pictures; touch