"Non-art use of art is the kind of artwork which is highly imaginative since it either (1) does not depict anything from the real world by smudging of regular and random shapes, colors, lines along with expressing things that are not visible including emotions and feelings or (2) it is used for for therapeutic interventions with people in distress or with special needs to develop coordination skills, fine motor training or physical therapy of fingers," said Jaipur based educator and researcher whose work in 'non-art use of art' has been recognized and presented in conferences in areas of disability education and visual learning.
He recommends that for enhancing attentiveness, correction of holding of writing tools, fine motor training of fingers and brain activation, the doodling and scribble-shading can work well with children with dysgraphia.
He used the foregoing for ten hours in staggered way in two weeks with an 8-year old dysgraphic child in clinical settings which not only improving his fine motor skills required for writing but also got motivated to do non-art sketch work with scribble-shading.
Read the following collage that depicts the procedure of non-art use of art for children with learning disability.
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