Assisted movement therapy, or drawing therapy for children with learning disabilities (LDs), uses movement of the hand with a writing tool to help such children to mitigate the challenges to their classroom functionality.
The aim of movement therapy is to improve LDs' cognitive, physical and emotional well being in the classroom as a part of education therapy.
In this therapy, the educator makes the child to grasp the drawing tool and the holds his or her hand from the the back to do modeled drawing.
Often the drawing is done step-wise a numger of times so the the LD imbibes the movement and remembers it.
"The purpose of assisted drawing therapy is not to teach drawing but the to reinforce the structures and shapes of things through slow proper conscious movement leading to sight vocabulary across the ability spectrum along with non-cognitive gains in fine motor and coordination skills," says Dr Lalit Kishore, researcher at Disha Foundation in Jaipur.
Read the following collage to sense how assisted drawing / writing therapy works.
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