Abstract
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IntroductionDrawing can be a tool to complete the psychodiagnose process, especially in children with expression and verbal problems.
The autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) children have problems to describe their feelings and emotions, they can provide us many information drawing their own world.
ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to discover the psychopathology of children with ASD through their drawings.
MethodsA4-sized booklets were given for ASD children from 6 to 16 years to draw an imaginary family (L. Corman), a human figure (Buck) or a free drawing.
ResultsIn most of the drawings of ASD children, we could find at least one of the three criteria of ASD: social deficits, communication difficulties and restricted interests.
ConclusionsA projective technique as drawing could help us to discover additional information about our patients, specially children and mainly the ones who had problems with the expression of feelings like ASD children.
The act of drawing can be used to understand children's struggles, their internal world. Moreover, it could also help the children gain insight and review progress through drawing records.
Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
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