Assistive Technology in Art Education

Although students with disabilities may experience many "cannots", taking an art class does not have to be one of them!

There are many challenges that do face art education teachers when teaching students with disabilities.  Some of these challenges are:

• Sensory issues
• Gross motor delays
• Fine motor delays
• Cognitive delays

After taking into account these issues and delays, art projects can be a fun learning experience as well as therapeutic for students with disabilities.

Below is a link to a forum where a teacher asked for assistance in teaching a class to children with special needs.  There are several fellow teachers offering advice as well as links to projects and lesson plans:

Incredible Art

Below is a webpage that will show you the different assistive technology that is available for art education:

Arts Work Indiana

One Assistive Technology device that can be used for creating art on the computer as a Universal Design is: