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Spatial Orientation and Navigation Strategies among Visually Impaired People in Pakistan
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The study explored spatial reference frames and navigation strategies among visually impaired people. The study focuses on the different kinds of reference frames that participants' verbalised responses hint at. Through the Cognitive Discourse Analysis methodological framework (Tenbrink, 2015), we designed route description and navigation guidance tasks to collect a large set of linguistic data from 19 participants – 38 discourses. Tenbrink and Kuhn’s (2011) framework of spatial reference frames is employed to find out the nature of reference frames employed by participants during navigation tasks and to identify navigation strategies of visually impaired people. The types of reference frames identified are static external intrinsic reference frames, static external relative reference frames, static internal intrinsic reference frames and static internal relative reference frames. The findings of the study suggest better ways for the training of visually impaired people especially in the institutes of people with special needs.
Keywords:
Navigation strategies, People with special needs, Spatial reference frames, Visually impaired peopleReferences
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