Conociendo el contexto en el que viven los NNA Quilichagueños

successions and only rarely can combine these into slmifb-

taneous impressions. One may consider, therefore, that

forced responsiveness to stimuli, dlstraotlbility, foregx^pund-

background distm’banoe, perseverations and the like can toe

As. a result the brato^-injurad child is handicapped in forming a

oonoept of t W spaoe world,^ - . , . ;

Indications of such disturbance would be eispected to appear in drawing, and the same authors (9) i&i their soaroh fôr a

psychological test i^dilch wuld bo diagnostic of brain*-lnjury, state, that Bender has suggested that the direction and degree of discrepancy between the Blnet intelligence test score mid that of Goodenough^s "fdrai'Jing a mah^* test, is at least a usei^. clue in the - diagnosis of organic brain damage* A score bn the draining test two years or more below the Binet mental age might be considered as suggestive of braiU'^injury, but as Strauss and ISephart point out, its validity has not been established and emotional disturbances are liable to hfwe a similar effect on draining results* , In fact according to Cardive]^ "It Is increasingly believed that emotional immaturity may be not only a result but sometimes a primary or a contributing cause of perceptive and allied disabilities," ■ -

. , Perhaps the best summing up is that of Sarasoxi (IX) when

he says# - • ■ -

3h rege^d tp the test funetl6h1.ng ,of the cerobral palsied there does not appear to be a characteristic test pattern idiloh differentiates them sharply from all other diagnostic or otiO'-

logical groups in which brain abnormality is present* 8oA oases have inordinate difficulty with tasks involving visual* motor activity and others do not; some cases have a relatively

high, vocabulary relative to mental age and others do hot;, some

cases show a geijieralised lowering in the level of intelligence

,functioningi whereas in others the defect appears to affect

In the light-of Sarason's cdmionts, Berko*à (12)'warning'is the

more timely* He states tlmt Wille the perceptual deviations shot®'toy the oeretoral palsied have ecjmionly been attributed to spécifie neural lesions, they seem "to bs similar to performance patterns which are to be noimally expected of children at lower levels of perceptual nmtm'ation*" ' : «

a m a m & a m - ' ' ... : . , '

Ab part of the psychological study undertaken in Dundee and district samples of drawing ware taken in every case possible* The person tested ivas asked to draw a house, tree and person and the result was studied from two points of vleiv* Of primary concern was the structure of the drawing and the presence of organisational defects* The execution ims of secondary interest.

Drawings were rated as follows: good^ if both structure and execution were good; poor, if structure were so ratdd, irrespective of the execution; indifferent if belonging to neither of the other categories. In making these ratings chronological age was taken into account*

Not all of the cerebral palsied cases studied wore able to produce drawings for the reasons shown in Table 55, on the

folloi^ig page. Ohildren under four years of age w r e excluded, as were the more sQverely'mentainy haxidicapped, thou^ where they were able to use a pencil at all they were ehcburaged to try drawing and it was thus possible to include some of: the

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older children of 1*Q, range» 20 to 50, •' -

- ' ' ' T&B&B 55 -

' REASONS FOR ËXOM8ION FROM DRAtVING

1 , 2 3 4 ■ ■ ■■..5 ■ .' ’ 6' ' ■

Age' I%ntal

, Randioeip ,Partiallysighted , ,

Emotional

Reaction PhysicalHar^pâp Total

, 33 , 41 . 4 . 3 3 74

Those excluded oh emotional grounds showed themselves, reluctant about (drawing* Only in three cases was drawing oonsidered

inapplicable solely on the grounds of physical, handicap*.

: Results for the 139 casee from whom draMnga tyere obtained are:glvenlnTable56* ... ... .

, ' TABBB 56 , . , .. :

' . _ RATims. FOR DmwmG.. , / . . \

1 . . , ,'2 . . :. 3 :,. ' ' 5

Rating Good ' fiidifferèirb '' ' Poor-' Total

Number 25 ' '

Six '"

■■■ ' ' 33 - 139

 i^de gulf, separated those in the çâtègor^^ good those rated as poor* WiÜe a^iétic merit plaÿéd almost no pcpt in the

: assigning pf ratihgo,, nine of those rated good showed suoii merit, in contrast, 18 of t W '26 rated poor had almost no structiûre and therefore were practioally unintelligible, For such oases it was necessary to label drawings on con^letipn in order that house, tree and person could be distinguished* It is this type

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of drawing which has been held to bo indicative of organiO brain daraage and hence the emphasis on structure in making the ratings* The main finding is the great variation shoim among the cerebral palsied in the Dundee study* For some cases drawing was

impossible, some could produce only

en

unintelligible attempt, many showed mediocre results and

&.

few made really good drawlngs

indicating giftedness in this direction* BscamplGS showing the wide range found are given in plates M». on the two following

pages*

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_{reproduction all drawings are reduced by} one quarter in sisoa

The bearing of disability, age> and intelligence upon ratings for #awing idll bo considered • In turn*

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miâ SlfiââMM

The relationship between rating for drawing and disability index is given by Table 57*

TABm; 57

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