Art Education, Therapy Interventions and School Management in Autism

Abstract

A variety of research has shown that involvement in the arts increases student achievement across all subject areas, as well as social and adaptive skills. Accordingly, special education and art integration might be beneficial on many levels for individuals with ASD as well. This study aims to determine the trends in the studies on autism and arts through content analysis and discuss the role of school management in art education for individuals with autism. Several databases were examined in the study in order to carry out the content analysis in order to provide a review of on the studies related with art interventions in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Articles published in academic databases were examined based on certain criteria including year of publication, research subject, sample, name of the journals, authors in the studies. Data were analyzed based on content analysis method. Results are discussed with reference to relevant literature and implications for further research and practices are also provided.

The research focus and development trend of art therapy in Chinese education since the 21st century

“…The integration of art therapy into special and general education to promote special students' skills, emotional regulation and self-expression has recently become more and more important (Allahverdiyev et al, 2017). For autism treatment, research has shown that the use of art therapy can help people with autism improve their social skills (Yücesoy et al, 2020). In additional, another research also pointed out that art therapy provides a non-verbal language advantage with effect of strong feeling, which In summary (Srolovitz et al, 2022), it can be found that art therapy can effectively improve the physical and psychological problem behaviors of children with special needs, which makes it increasingly important in special education in China.…”

Okul Öncesi Öğretmen Adaylarının Sanat Eğitimi ve Görsel Sanatlar Dersine İlişkin Tutumlarının incelenmesi

“…Bu anlamda, dersin amacı çağa uygun ve günümüz teknolojilerinin uzağında kalmayacaktır. (Yücesoy, Bağlama & Tüzel, 2020).…”