A Review of Sand-play in Preschool Integrated Education for Autistic Children

Abstract

With the deepening of peoples understanding of autism, more and more attention has been paid to the group of autistic children. Sandplay therapy as a treatment for autism is not only easy to operate, easy to implement, has a deep theoretical basis as support, but also deeply loved by children, at the same time, it has also been widely recognized in the world, which has some effect in alleviating autistic children's social interaction barriers, language barriers, and repetitive stereotypic behaviors. And since the concept of integrated education was put forward, more and more autistic children have started to study in ordinary schools. As an inexorable trend in the field of special education, the aim is to place children with special needs in regular classes to maximize their potential of children with special needs and enable them to grow up together with ordinary children. In the tide of integrated education, schools will become the best place for autistic children to learn and play sandplay. Based on the analysis of the effects of sandplay on autistic children's interpersonal communication disorder, speech disorder, and repetitive stereotypic behavior, this paper puts forward the basic principles and practical conditions of applying sandplay to preschool integrated education and points out the limitations and future research directions of sandplay in the practice of integrated education.