Author(s)

Shiyu Wang

Corresponding Author

Shiyu Wang

Abstract

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have language and social impairments, stereotypical behavior, and intellectual impairments. This paper studies the effects of art therapy on autism. In this study, the training have stronger effect to improve autism children’s ability as compare to the normal children. In addition, the result showed that the training can both improve autism children and normal children’s sport ability, while there was no group difference. Whats more, the result showed that the training is especially effective to improve autism children’s verbal ability. Children initiated and sustained social interactions during painting. Art therapy can be considered as effective therapy.

Keywords

Autism Spectrum Disorder; Art Therapy; Language Ability; Social Interactions