Which assessment focuses on styles of coping and thinking, organization and use of space, and planning and sequencing for exceptional nonverbal children who could draw?

• A. Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Assessment
• B. Bridge Drawing Assessment
• C. Landgarten Photo Collage Assessment
• D. Leverick Emotional and Cognitive Art Therapy Assessment

Answer: (D)

This assessment is designed to reveal how a child processes emotions and thoughts through art, focusing on coping styles, thinking patterns, how they organize space on the page, and their ability to plan and sequence actions in the drawing. For exceptional nonverbal children who can draw, this approach provides rich information about emotional regulation and cognitive processing without relying on verbal responses. By observing how the child chooses materials, arranges elements, and sequences the steps to complete a drawing, the clinician can infer coping strategies and executive planning that underlie behavior and learning.

Other drawing- and art-based tools tend to emphasize different domains. A visual-motor integration focus highlights how well a child can translate perceptual input into motor output, which is more about perceptual-motor skills than about coping or cognitive organization expressed through art. A collage-based assessment explores meaning and relationships through images but does not center on the specific combination of coping, space organization, and sequencing in drawing for nonverbal children. The remaining option covers other aspects of drawing-based assessment but does not target the integrated view of emotional and cognitive processing in nonverbal drawing that Leverick provides.