**5. Conclusions**

Visual experience is deemed to be fundamental for the acquisition of spatial competence; indeed, visually impaired children tend to manifest impairments in spatial and locomotor skills, causing a general developmental delay. The hearing sense can be boosted since an early age to foster compensatory mechanisms for the development of spatial perception, principally because compared to touch it can provide distal information [150]. There is evidence that multisensory training based on the action-perception link can improve spatial abilities in visually impaired children and prevent the risk of developmental delays and social exclusion [148, 149, 151].

### **Acknowledgements**

We would like to thank all the children and parents for their willing participation in our studies and the Unit for Visually Impaired People (UVIP) members for their passionate work on visually impaired individuals.

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**Author details**

Giulia Cappagli1,2\* and Monica Gori2

2 Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy

provided the original work is properly cited.

\*Address all correspondence to: giulia.cappagli@iit.it

1 Neurological Institute Foundation C. Mondino, Pavia, Italy

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*The Role of Vision on Spatial Competence DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.89273*

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