Special Education Students Overcome Obstacles With Art Therapy

On World Heart Day, The School for Visually Impaired Students from Bucharest, wish you a beautiful life, full of joy and color, among your loved ones! 💓💛 💙 Therapy through art and love!  

Erasmus+ project "SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS OVERCOME OBSTACLES WITH ART THERAPY" e-book "ART THERAPY IN SPECIAL EDUCATION" (Theoretical and practical recommendations) publishes theoretical material and practical recommendations to help educate and socialise children with special educational needs through art therapy.

  Application of visual art therapy methods at the Special Gymnasium and Lyceum of Athens.

This year, a group of Litorina School students started the school year with an art therapy lesson "Friendship Aquarium". The idea for the first lesson came from the concert "DANCES UNDER THE SEA" held at the Special Gymnasium and Lyceum of Athens in Greece, where students with mobility disabilities were given the unique opportunity to dance and feel like equal participants in a sea tale.  The school is like an aquarium where children of different ages, interests and individual needs have to get along. As part of the treasure chest hunt, the children completed the tasks together, in two groups, in pairs and singly. This helped them to realise that working together is easier and more fun.  The aquarium on the stand is an interpretation of the art therapy method "People as Fish". This method helped to reveal the children's attitudes towards the renewed group, their role in it, some character traits and even hobbies.

 Summer is one of the most rewarding seasons for artists who love to create in nature. At Litorina School, there is no shortage of creative children. This is evidenced by the original mandalas that the pupils make with great inspiration in their art lessons. Mandalas are not only pleasing to the eye, but also have a therapeutic role to play: they calm the mind, teach concentration, and help to reveal feelings and emotions that are sometimes hard to recognise and understand. Turkish educators, who demonstrated the endless creative and therapeutic possibilities of nature during the "Visual Art Therapy" visit, introduced the work with natural materials.

 for a better representation and framing of the visually impaired child in a friendly setting, it is useful to create a collage, a familiar scenario, All the elements known about the environment, positioned in a narrow frame, creating a harmonious final work

 In order to encourage reading, and to respect books, and to achieve a more special student-book relationship. The visually impaired students can mark the pages of their favorite books in a more attractive style by creating tactile bookmarks - tactile images created on PIAF paper, and colored with dactilo painting. That give the product originality and personality, determining and discovering the joy in small and delicate things.