Eleven graduate students who had registered for an elective course in art therapy worked under supervision with 11 unselected learning-impaired children. They used special art techniques designed to develop and evaluate ability to order, perceive, associate, and represent components. After 10 weekly one-hour art periods, the children showed significant gains in concepts of space, order, and class, as measured by pre- and post-tests designed for the study.
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