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Description of Routes in People With Intellectual Disability

Courbois, Y; Mengue-Topio, H; Blades, M; Farran, EK; Sockeel, P; (2019) Description of Routes in People With Intellectual Disability. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities , 124 (2) pp. 116-130. 10.1352/1944-7558-124.2.116. Green open access

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Abstract

The ability to describe routes was assessed in participants with intellectual disability (ID) and participants without ID matched on chronological age (CA) or on mental age (MA). In two experiments, participants learned a route through a virtual environment until they reached a learning criterion. They were then asked to externalize their spatial knowledge in a verbal description task, a landmark recognition task, or a map completion task. Results revealed that participants with ID mainly described the route as a succession of actions ("turn left"), and participants in the CA group prescribed actions referring to a landmark ("turn left at the swing"). Yet, results from the other tasks showed that people with ID had good landmark knowledge of the environment.

Type: Article
Title: Description of Routes in People With Intellectual Disability
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1352/1944-7558-124.2.116
Publisher version: https://www.aaiddjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1352/1944...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: wayfinding, spatial knowledge, verbal description, intellectual disability
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10069964
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