Study on the Acquisition of the Concept of Spatial Representation by Visually Impaired People - Maps for the Future Children Education and Internet - page 302

Fig. 23.11 Laura's drawing of a route
draw to the challenge presented (representing a place in the town that she lived in).
In her drawing the shape and size of objects were not represented because they are
large and it was not possible to explore them by touch. The symbols used by Laura
are not crayon scribbles on paper, but application of the graphic representations
learned at the Special School.
The pupil does not know how many trees there are in the square, or what their
height and shapes are, but represents them with a symbol of a tree. In order to
represent the street and sidewalk she uses nearly circular shapes, indicating the
spacing of her body. She represents tables at the ice cream parlor with those that she