A Comparsion of Figure Drawings and WISC IQ's Among Disabled Readers

Abstract

Children's figure drawings have been used as a measure of intellectual development since at least the 1920's. This study assesses the relationship between IQ scores from two systems for scoring figure drawings as compared to performance on the WISC in a population of disabled readers. The two figure drawing scoring systems yield very similar results in spite of the fact that one was more recently standardized and is more complex. Scores derived from figure drawings show significant correlations with scores from the Performance, but not the Verbal, section of the WISC. Scores on several of the Performance subtests were also significantly related to figure drawing scores. The results of the study also pointed out the need to differentiate subgroups among disabled readers.

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