Promote Visual Perceptual Development through Therapeutic Art

Methodology§Pretest and Posttest utilizing TASS§Identify children with below age appropriate art §skills§20-week Promotion Program§Analysis of data through descriptive and inferential §techniques§§Visual Perceptual Therapeutic Art Activities§20-week Visual Perceptual Promotion Program§Utilizes reversed field-ground experience art §materials§Both 2D and 3D art activities§§Statistical Techniques§Boxplot graphs may be utilized to present Pretest §and Posttest frequencies.§Estimation of Effect Size tests may be utilized to §assess the magnitude of the differences between the §Pretest and Posttest means.§T-Tests for correlated means may be utilized to §compare the Pretest and Posttest mean scores for §significance at a .01 level.§§Quantitative Summary§10% of the study participants demonstrated increased §art skills in drawing, 14% improved painting skills, §15% increased scissors skills, and 15% improved clay §skills. §According to t-tests, results were statistically §significant for all skill areas. Drawing also §demonstrated medium effect size.§The majority of the study participants tested at an §age appropriate level during the pretest process.