Understanding children with Asperger’s Syndrome through visual art

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

5 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

11/11/2008

Category :

Science & technology

Sub category :

Medical studies

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Summary :

Introduction.
The psychological condition called Asperger's Syndrome (AS).
1. AS - One of several pervasive developmental disorders.
2. Children with AS.
3. The limitations and difficulties caused by AS.
Children with AS - locked in an upsetting and frustrating position.
Art as a diagnostic tool to familiarize adults with the personality, interests and perspectives of the child with AS.
Conclusion.

Abstract

It is believed by many that art is one of the most basic ways that people communicate their inner feelings, thoughts and values with the world outside themselves. This is particularly true of children, who are often times painfully honest in expressing how they see themselves and others by creating art. (Koplewicz and Goodman 12) For some children, though, the impact of this expression is underscored by conditions not in the outside world, but the world inside the child's mind. The psychological condition called asperger's syndrome, or AS, is one of those conditions that dramatically affect a child's perspective for understanding the world. AS is one of the most least-understood psychological disorders known to psychiatry, having only been introduced to most researchers by Lorna Wing in 1981. Even then, researchers have only been examining AS at all since the 1940s, when Hans asperger first wrote about children who had what he called "autistic psychopathy."