ABSTRACT
Audio-visual aids have been part of teaching for a long time and they can be equally valuable in learning social skills and in creative or projective activities. A group that has problems with communication can benefit by combined non-verbal art activities with drama sessions. Dramatherapy overlaps with other creative arts. It is but a short step from beating rhythm to playing music, movement gradually becomes dance and painting and sculpture are other forms of non-verbal communication. Dramatherapists who work in occupational therapy departments or alongside other creative therapists have the opportunity to produce a combined programme. The therapist who is not in this position can include art in the drama sessions. The combination of music and drama is a familiar one. It is only by experience in drama that occupational therapists begin to feel its power and understand it as a therapeutic tool.
