Dramatherapy and Students with Learning Disabilities

For students with learning disabilities, the school may represent a place of failure and frustration. It is a place where the student often receives assistance for failure in the academic domain. These students may encounter difficulties in the social and emotional spheres but appropriate therapeutic measures are not readily available. The dysfunctional aspect of education is that while _it attends to academic needs, it often ignores the social and emotional difficulties that may perpetuate or exacerbate the inherent disability.This study analyzed the function and identified the therapeutic benefits of psychodramatic techniques with regard to the social and emotional needs of students with learning disabilities.