The Impact of Colour-Drawing in Reducing Behavioural Disorders for Autistic Children: An applied study on a Sample of Autistic Children

Abstract

This study aims at realising the influence of using colours in drawing and its role in reducing the behavioural disorders for autistic children while merging them with their peers. The paper used 50 autistic children whose ages range from 5-14 years old including both males and females. The researcher employed certain measurements to gauge the behavioural disorders and considered the autism list of American Association of Psychiatry focusing on the fourth edition from the statistical guide to diagnose the mental diseases (DSMIV) for the year 1994. This list is concerned with diagnosing autistic cases and is composed of four main fields and 15 chapters: the first field is the typical shortcoming of social communication, while the second field is the linguistic shortcoming and the third is samples of redundancy in behaviours, whereas the fourth one is the shortcoming of growth. The outcomes of statistical tests applied on hypotheses have concluded that there is a statistical difference between the ranges of the two groups in which the experimental group takes the lead in reducing the behavioural disorders in the samples under review, with relevance to the first hypothesis and the same is true with the second hypothesis