Both, drawing or colouring of rangoli designs, have been reported as ways of attentiveness-enhancing, fine-motor skill-training, stress-relieving when used with Children with Special Needs(CWSN).
When done done and practiced under an educational therapist or expressive art therapist, it shows positive results. After some initial sessions under a therapist, caregivers can create their own practice activities by accessing various book or non-book resources.
Even for normal people, it can work as as stress-relieving and purposeful hobby along with enhancing visual intelligence. I had experimented with doodle art therapy and created material on it a therapeutic material related to doodle-art[1] with the precept of 'use of art for non-art purposes' at Disha in Jaipur with moderate and mild CWSN.
It was found that the attentiveness, tripod grasp and fine motor skills improved after 20 hour of therapy spread over a month both by the special educator and caregivers when trained under the guidance of researchers and education therapists. The intervention material was designed by Dr Lalit Kishore and Dr Alka Awasthi and tried by Varsha Tikkiwal with a protocol.
During KOVID times, I had been extending the intervention for learning and found it useful during my own stressful times marked by social isolation and home-stay. I have created a few micro-videos for the teachers for validation for mild and moderate children with special needs (Watch inset collage and Video),
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