Similarly, the finding of the highly significant correlations for the VI group highlight the possible facilitatory role of maternal mental state language also in development of children with VI, as it has been shown previously in sighted children, including those with other disabilities.
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Story discourse and use of mental state language between mothers and school-aged children with and without visual impairment.
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Unlike the VI group, the correlation between mothers’ and children’s mentalistic language failed to reach significance (whether or not mothers’ verbosity, child’s age or VIQ was partialled out, p s > 0.112).