120 children were randomly drawn from kindergarten through Grade 5. Several developmental properties were identified in their reproduction of 18 figures. With increasing age children reproduced a greater number of the more complicated figures. Preliminary evaluations are made on the Copying Figures Task and reliabilities reported.
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