The freedom to learn

Handicapped children's potential to represent thoughts and feelings through visual forms is often overlooked. Intended for educators, therapists, psychologists, and physicians, the book focuses on art procedures found useful in developing concepts of space, of sequential order, and of class or group of objects. It also provides art techniques for evaluating cognitive and creative skills of children and adults who cannot communicate well verbally. The text is divided into two parts. In part 1, the roles art can play in cognition, adjustment, and assessmet are discussed. This section also looks at the need to re-examine low expectations of intellectual and artistic ability and to demonstrate that the handicapped can e truly gifted. In part 2, art procedures are explored which have shown useful in remediating cognitive deficits and in identifying cognitive skills. These include the ability to associate and represent concepts through drawing from imagination, the ability to perceive and represent concepts of space through drawing fro