Art Therapy for Down Sindrome
"The Apostle José Martí enuncio…" For children we work for are those who know love, children are the hope of the world "..."
This expression and idea source to a small group of artists in the town of Cardenas, to join efforts to create a community project that named "Hope" in homage to this Martian statement, in the year 2005.
Work with one of the diagnoses treated in rehabilitation therapies, such as infants and young people with Down syndrome, was a challenge in order to insert them in the process of Art therapy.
Teens are very cheerful, friendly, they cooperate, are integrated with great interest in these actions of plastic arts. In therapeutic processes are introduced with great discipline, organized and planned their creative processes of plastic compositions very joyful, colorful, generate community spirit, can raise as excellent monitors, by channeling the rest of the components to the stated objectives.
Its beginning at an early age in art therapy helps incredibly creative and personal development. For their early has been a priority which dominate the various geometrical forms, the square, the triangle, the circle, the oval, and rectangle. It is from his mastery of them, that we move towards drawing and plastic composition. You both instruct the child as their parents or guardians, in how to get started writing what you want to paint. Cubism as important movement within the plastic is for our teaching, significant base of home. View objects that wish to translate into support is paper or cardstock, begins by trying to simplify what is observed with geometric forms, citing by way of example, it is the desire to paint a baseball ball, you must understand that this can graficarlo, running a circle.
This way the Association of what he observed in the real world with these geometric shapes heading you and offer best options of pictorial implementation, and as all process and teaching methods, range from the simple to the complex. They must walk moderately for:
· Know
· Knowing
· Know-how
If this process of art therapy begins early, they'll know the method for understanding of geometric shapes is the association with the things of everyday life today. Infants and youth with Down syndrome are access paused, foster and strengthen their fantasies and stories to understand each case, because access to each are different and special. By the above, resorted to ruse of their interest, as it is the learn that a triangle is associated with a wafer ice cream, the ice cream ball is a circle, such as associating the rectangle with a box of cereal, and thus search for associations, that the child will identify and dominate this important component of beginning or introduction to the art of creating based on this new practice.
The experience accumulated in the tools we use to introduce and work with children or children with Down syndrome in the plastic arts therapies, they deserved you prize at Forum on Science and technology 2009 event, in the video that we propose you see, see objectives achieved in this regard and will even as they are at advanced stages of creative action, regard them even paint on canvas and acrylic paint objective end of the process of education and instruction.