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Does deficient sensorimotor experience affect drawing of human figures?

A L Evans1

  • 1Department of Child Health, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, UK. andrew@cusum.demon.co.uk

Pediatric Rehabilitation
|October 6, 1999
PubMed
Summary

Children with spina bifida demonstrate typical body proportions in figure drawings, suggesting their body schema is not significantly distorted despite lower limb sensorimotor issues. This finding supports other assessment methods for body concept in this population.

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Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Pediatric Medicine

Background:

  • Visuomotor competence is crucial for developing an internalized body concept.
  • Figure drawing is a tool to assess body concept, particularly in children.
  • Spina bifida can cause lower limb sensorimotor abnormalities affecting body perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the body concept of children with spina bifida using figure drawings.
  • To compare the figure drawings of children with spina bifida to those of typically developing children.
  • To assess if lower limb sensorimotor abnormalities impact the body schema representation in figure drawings.

Main Methods:

  • Comparative analysis of figure drawings between two groups of children.

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  • Assessment of body proportion accuracy in drawings.
  • Utilizing figure drawing as a proxy for internalized body schema.

    • Main Results:

    • Children with spina bifida did not show significant distortions in lower limb proportions in their figure drawings.
    • Figure drawings of spina bifida children were comparable to those of normal children regarding body part relationships.
    • No significant difference in the representation of lower limb-to-body proportion was observed.

    Conclusions:

    • Figure drawing appears to be a valid method for assessing body schema in children with spina bifida.
    • Despite sensorimotor deficits, the body concept related to lower limb proportion remains intact in children with spina bifida.
    • Findings align with other studies assessing body schema in this population.