The representation of orthopedic disability in children's figure drawings.

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"Sets of human figure drawings[long dash]same-sex, opposite-sex, and self-figures[long dash]were obtained from 22 children in the chronic stage of poliomyelitis. These drawings were studied by 3 different methods to determine whether they reflected the physical disability of the subjects. (1) By inspection, more than 3-quarters of the subjects appeared to represent their disability, either directly or indirectly, in their drawings. (2) Comparison of drawings of the disabled children with those of normal controls, equated for age, sex, and IQ, showed a nonsignificant number of significant differences between the 2 groups on a series of 55 scoring signs. (3) Judges experienced in the psychodiagnostic use of figure drawings were unable to differentiate the drawings of disabled and normal subjects at a level better than chance." 16 references.

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