Art for All the Children : Approaches to Art Therapy for Children with Disabilities

by Anderson, Frances E.

• ISBN13: 9780398060077
• ISBN10: 039806007X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-02-01
• Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Children With Different Ways of Learning Are Children First and Foremost!	p. 3
A Discussion of Disabilities	p. 3
Children with Mental Retardation	p. 5
Children with Mild Mental Retardation	p. 7
Children with Moderate Mental Retardation	p. 13
Children with Severe and Profound Mental Retardation	p. 15
Children with Learning Disabilities	p. 20
Children with Behavior Disorders/Emotional Disturbance	p. 34
Children with Physical Disabilities	p. 51
Children with Hearing Impairments	p. 67
Children with Visual Impairments	p. 78
An Overview of Children's Normal Development in Art	p. 99
Summary of Normal Children's Artistic Development	p. 99
Art Programs in the Middle School	p. 120
High School Adolescent Art: The Period of Decision	p. 124
Some Other Developmental Approaches and Ways Children's Art has been Studied	p. 128
Approaches to Art Therapy With Children	p. 142
Psychoanalytic Approaches	p. 143
Developmental Approaches	p. 150
Adaptive Approaches	p. 159
Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches	p. 167
Art and the Individualized Education Program	p. 184
An Example of the Development and Implementation of Individualized Education Programs in Art for Three Learners with Physical and Multiple Disabilities	p. 189
Art Skill Sheet	p. 191
Art Skill Sheet	p. 199
Art Skill Sheet	p. 205
Art Skill Sheet	p. 210
An Illustration of How Art can be Written into Every Component of an IEP	p. 211
Art and the IEP (Individualized Education Program)	p. 213
Individualized Education Program	p. 214
Art Therapy in a Large Urban School District: The Miami, Florida-Dade County Public School Experience	p. 219
Art Therapy With a Public School Child	p. 232
Systematically Oriented Art Therapy - A Theoretical Perspective	p. 233
Case Study	p. 234
Adapting Art for Children With Disabilities	p. 271
Adaptations are the Key Concept	p. 271
Four Categories of Adaptations	p. 271
Other Suggested Adaptations	p. 297
Health Hazards of Art Materials for Children with Disabilities	p. 302
Developing a Sense of Self Through Art	p. 313
A Sense of Self	p. 314
The Genesis or Beginning	p. 328
Feet and Hands, Fingers and Toes	p. 332
Footprints, Handprints, Fingerprints	p. 332
Awareness Through Clay: Finger and Foot Stamping	p. 336
What's in a Face?	p. 342
Masks	p. 345
Putting it all Together: The Life-Size Portrait	p. 348
Author Index	p. 353
Subject Index	p. 359
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