I retired from the University of Florida in 2019 due to the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. After spending the last 25 years studying educational technology I’m now returning to my developmental psychology roots, organizing a collection of one child’s drawings. I think drawing is a fascinating behavior: all typical toddlers will at some point (intentionally or accidentally) make a mark that represents something. However, in my opinion this aspect of development is understudied relative to language development and symbolic play. I hope that the collection I am working with will ultimately provide researchers with an online archival record of one child’s output. The child is my daughter Allegra Cohen, who is now a postdoc developing computational models of agricultural systems at the University of Florida. I'm grateful to her for permission to share her childhood drawings. You can view some of the collection here. Please keep in mind that it is a work in progress.

-- Carole R. Beal