Young Children and Their Drawings

Long out of print, this classic book with an exceptionally current relevance is being made available once again. In it, more than 300 drawings are reproduced, revealing the full spectrum of normal and abnormal development. Young Children and Their Drawings is an extraordinary invitation into the world of the young child and, at the same time, an opportunity to look out at the world with the child's eyes. The first section of the book charts normal development, from the scrawls of the 13 month-old to representational efforts of the 6-year-old. In the second section, drawings are used as diagnostic tools for learning disabilities, cerebral palsy, hearing loss, personality disorders, and more.

Part I: The Usual and Normative. Procedure. Developmental Sequences. Earliest Drawings: The Kinesthetic Stage. Transition from Kinesthetic to Representational Drawing. Representation and Reproduction. The Human Figure Evolves: Primacy of the Head. The Trunk Appears; The Mixed Profile; The Profile Fluctuations; Drawing What is Known to Exist. Past and Present. What is "Wrong" in Children's Drawings. Drawing Before Writing. Development of Graphic Expression in Mankind and the Individual. Male and Female: Awareness of Sex. Part II: The Unusual and Deviant. Drawings as Diagnostic Aids: Drawing the Family. Omission and Over-Emphasis. The Mentally Subnormal. Cerebral Palsy. Syndromes of Cerebral Dysfunction. Communication Disorders: Sensori-Neural Hearing Loss; Central Language Disorders; As Manifestations of Personality Disorders. Use of Children's Drawings in the Study of Personality. Personality Disorders.