ABSTRACT
During the 2000–2001 school year, the Clinical Art Therapy Department in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M–DCPS) adopted the Silver Drawing Test of Emotion and Cognition (SDT) as an assessment tool to use with students identified as emotionally handicapped or severely emotionally disturbed. The district supported the adoption of the SDT by providing training in the form of in-service workshops and by purchasing Art as Language (Silver, 2001) for each of the 20 art therapists employed by M–DCPS.
