6-hour Training in click-based echolocation changes practice in visual impairment professionals.

ABSTRACT: Click-based echolocation can support mobility and orientation in people with vision impairments (VI) when used alongside other mobility methods. Only a small number of people with VI use click-based echolocation. Previous research about echolocation addresses the skill of echolocation per se to understand how echolocation works, and its brain basis. Our report is the first to address the question of professional practice for people with VI, i.e., a very different focus. VI professionals are well placed to affect how a person with VI might learn about, experience or use click-based echolocation. Thus, we here investigated if training in click-based echolocation for VI professionals might lead to a change in their professional practice. The training was delivered via 6-h workshops thr

SUBMITTER: Thaler L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10239887 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature