HUMAN FIGURE DRAWING ABILITY AND VESTIBULAR PROCESSING DYSFUNCTION IN LEARNING-DISABLED CHILDREN.

The article focuses on a study conducted to explore further the relationship of human figure drawing ability and vestibular processing function as measured by postrotary nystagmus. The results of this study support the contention of previous investigators that some learning-disabled children can be differentiated based on their performance on measures of vestibular-ocular function. This study also suggests that human figure drawing may be used as one indicator of vestibular related dysfunction in some learning-disabled children and that the postrotary nystagmus-figure drawing relationship operates independently of IQ.