Effectiveness of Arts Based Therapy across Domains for Persons with Disabilities

Persons with disabilities, particularly those with intellectual deficits, lack the ability to perform daily tasks smoothly unlike neurotypical individuals who are able to perform the same tasks without any limitations. These individuals show improvement with limited kinds of interventions in order to improve their understanding of the world. Some interventions have shown a wide range of changes in their psycho-motor domain, social skills, communication skills, emotional capability and cognitive domain. Arts Based Therapy (ABT) involves different forms of art as a means of providing therapy to these individuals to bring about functional improvement across the aforementioned domains of their lives. This paper explores the changes in persons with disabilities across various domains reported in persons with disabilities through ABT.