AbstractsPsychology

Interpersonal relationships are essential to the normal development of a child. Learning-disabled children lack interpersonal relationships, and manifest social isolation in both their behavior and their artwork. In a study comparing the drawings done by 15 learning-disabled children and 15children displaying no learning problems, it was demonstrated that learning-disabled children depict themselves as sociallyisolated in the context of their school environment. Two out of seven measures proved significant in the discrimination ofthe two groups with regard to social isolation. A grotesque self-image and the omission of peers from the drawing appearedsignificantly more in the drawings of learning-disabled children than in those of normal children. As diagnostic assessmentsthe children's drawings can indicate social isolation and the direction toward its remediation.