Sensory-Motor and Perceptual Spatial Rehabilitation With a Focus on Parent-child Interaction and Fear of Movement in Children With Visual Impairment: A Systematic Review

Visual impairment is accompanied by side effects and problems that can affect the person’s mental and physical health. The purpose of this study was to scan the studies on the effects of sensory-motor rehabilitation and space-perception with a focus on parent-child interaction and fear of movement in children with visual impairment.

The analysis of data in this project was done by the synthetic scan. The methodology was based on gathering, classifying, and summarizing data in studies on sensory-motor rehabilitation and space-perception with a focus on mother-child interaction and fear of motion in children with a visual impairment from 2007 to 2021 in articles found on databases, such as Eric, Ebsco, Google Scholar, Scopus, ScienceDirect, PubMed, Magiran, SID, Ensani, IranDoc, and Noormags with searching keywords, such as sensory-motor rehabilitation, space-perception, fear of movement, and children with visual impairment. In the primary search, 72 articles were chosen and then, 15 articles were chosen from them based on their title being sensory-motor rehabilitation and space- perception in children with visual impairment. 

The results showed that this treatment is suitable for decreasing motion fear in children with visual impairment. Also, sensory-motor rehabilitation and space-perception can improve motion fear factors, such as motivation, parent-child relationship, physical awareness, imitating others’ behavior, and orientation and mobility skills..

By evaluating studies, it is figured that sensory-motor rehabilitation and space-perception with a focus on mother-child interaction is one of the supplementary treatments for children with visual impairment and will eventually decrease motion fear in children so that they can commute independently.