PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Developmental Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1607528
iReach: New multisensory technology for early intervention in infants with visual impairments
Provisionally accepted
- 1Unit for Visually Impaired People, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genoa, Italy
- 2University of Genoa, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
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Visual impairments have profoundly adverse consequences for infants. They affect infants' spatial and motor skills, playing, socializing and psychological well-being. Early therapeutic interventions to foster these abilities are needed to improve their quality of life. Effective rehabilitation technologies depend on a better understanding of the neuroscientific bases of multisensory and body processing. However, these abilities can only be assessed qualitatively based on observational approaches. Technological solutions are still unavailable due to the complexity of conveying a signal to visually impaired infants that they will assuredly understand. With iReach, we aim to address this problem. Specifically, we will design and develop a multisensory system that will provide non-invasive recording and training of the sensory-motor skills. It will be compatible with simultaneous behavioural and brain activity response measures. For the first time, with iReach we will train and directly quantify visually impaired infants' sensory-motor abilities, offering a cost-efficient system for early intervention.
Keywords: infants, development, multisensory, Technology, visual impairment, intervention
Received: 07 Apr 2025; Accepted: 02 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Gori, Petri, Riberto and Setti. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Monica Gori, Unit for Visually Impaired People, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genoa, 30 16163, Italy
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