Assessed the ability of 122 preschoolers to recognize photographs of their hands (H) and faces (F), their own drawings (OD) and drawings done by an artist in each child's style (S). Performance was not highly correlated with age or vocabulary and showed no intertask generality. (Author/RH)

The article presents the transcript of an Australian radio program in which the interviewer and a psychologist discuss the implications of the extraordinary drawing ability of an autistic girl, and how that drawing ability faded as she was taught rudimentary speech skills. (DLS)

Offers some observations about child art and some research findings in this area. Attempts to establish the basis for accepting child art as art. (Author/RK)

This experiment was designed to explore the claim that the form of children's drawings reflects the nature of their representation of pictured objects in memory. Subjects were 64 children (16 each from nursery school and grades 1, 3, and 6). (MS)

Collected drawings from schooled and unschooled 10- to 15-year olds in a remote region of Papua New Guinea. Found that children attending school drew only human figures. Unschooled children produced a range of drawings from scribbles through transitional forms to human figures. Some children appeared to be able to draw human figures without going…

Shares some of the classroom practices that have worked well in teaching "Naked." Presents a summary of introductory comments about the story and a description of the sketching activity. Offers interpretive commentary on a selection of representative student sketches that reflect significant features of the story. Provides general…

Discusses teacher and student drawings in the classroom, illustrations in texts, picture books, and movies as external image-based tools that support reading comprehension. Presents a summary of points practitioners will want to consider when using sketches, illustrations, picture books, and movies with reluctant and low-ability middle school…

Examined relationship between representative modalities of genital inner space and identity formation in adolescent girls (N=275) aged 11 to 18 years by asking them to draw the inside of their bodies and their sexual organs. Found structuration and integration of genital inner space in the body image was a slow developmental process. (Author/ABL)

Discusses a class activity designed to demythologize Shakespeare, to show that he aimed his craft at drawing a crowd to the theater. Discusses an eight-step process by which students draw the Globe Theater. Addresses how design elements reflect Shakespeare's time. (RS)

Discusses the work of Isaac Edwards Clarke, an influential nineteenth-century U.S. education official. Reports that Clarke encouraged instruction in drawing as an important industrial skill. Indicates that, although interest in industrial drawing as an important aspect of art education waned by 1900, Clarke's influence continued to be felt. (SG)

Maintains that graphic skills may reveal a dementia process in progress. Describes a simple, nonverbal screening method, tested on 1,500 aged subjects, which uses geometric copying, handwriting, and freehand figure drawing to screen for social and/or cognitive disorders. Shows that these graphic skills drop in a prescribed order with decreasing…

Presents a student assignment which involves interviewing a family member and then drawing images and writing a description of their advice. Includes completed assignments from two students. (SR)

In a fashion illustration course, 24 students were taught using expository methods and 28 with experiential methods. Each method involved 20 lessons over eight weeks. Pre/posttest results indicated that both methods were equally effective in improving scores. (SK)

This study evaluated figure drawings of 28 persons with Williams syndrome, 28 with mixed etiologies, and 28 with Down syndrome. Human figures from participants with Williams syndrome were no more deviant than their counterparts, nor did they show "local-global" differences. Findings support a developmental, rather than deviant,…

Examined in two studies the height of male and female figures in 5- and 7-year-olds' drawings. Found that adult figures were drawn taller than child figures. For boys, mean male and female heights were approximately the same. Girls drew females taller than males because more girls used different structures such as incorporating a skirt or trousers…