I remember a Hackernews wondering if people who were "born paralyzed" might have intellectual disabilities as well, and the answer appears to be yes. One of the

I remember a Hackernews wondering if people who were "born paralyzed" might have intellectual disabilities as well, and the answer appears to be yes. One of the things that came out of Papert's Logo research was the benefits to kids with severe motor disabilities: by setting things up so they could drive the turtle around, they had much better grasp of spatial relations between objects than they otherwise would. Being able to manipulate a proxy in the real world (the turtle) allowed them to explore those spatial relations in ways they couldn't with their physical bodies and that's critical to our cognitive development.