MARCH 21st: Development in Early Childhood

Speech delays, attention deficits, emotional deficits, hyperactivity, autism in early childhood?

Can scribbling and drawing help?

www.marksandmind.org

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

After ten years of work

Tonight, I am thinking about the two books I have just published on-line, on-demand,
hoping for their success for the sake of children's minds. For the past 20 years, I have been exploring the connections between drawing and writing, as well as the wellsprings of writing and other symbolic thought in scribbling, discovering the fundamental nature of scribbling as biological liveliness, organization, and outreach.

I am hoping that my two position papers, "The Scribble Hypothesis," and "How Marks Change Minds," provide sufficient support for these books in terms of scholarly research, although both books include new citations, and propose even more research questions.

It has been a long journey. The third book in this series is written, a general science book called The Scribble Hypothesis, which lays out the research across 7 fields of inquiry. May SAVING LITERACY and HANDMADE MARKS - these new books - make their own mark, at last.

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