The purpose of this study was to prove the effect of art therapy program on
mental processing ability for children with learning disabilities.
The two specific purposes were: identifying effect of art therapeutic active
program on simultaneous mental processing ability of children with learning
disabilities, identifying effect of art therapeutic active program on sequential
mental ability of children with learning disabilities.
The object of study was fifteen children with learning disabilities who are in
the special education classes of D, O and S elementary school in Busan. With
K-ABC as method of this study the independent variable is art therapy
program and the dependent variables are simultaneous mental processing
ability, sequential mental processing ability.
The experiment was performed three times every week 40 minutes per
session during 2 months.
I hope the result of my study can activate further studies as :
First, the study of art therapy program experimented on the children with
other types of disability.
Second, the study of art therapy program experimented on proves that art
therapy program have positive effects on two different groups with same
disability.
Third, the study of art therapy program such as music therapy, play
therapy, etc.