This study is to assess the effect of mandala art therapy on mild and moderately intellectually disabled children. Fristly tools on attention and functional social skill and socio demographic proforma will be administered on the first day, then pre-drawn mandalas will be given. Then the participants have to fill in the colors. The session will be for an hour and it will be given three times a week for 4 weeks. At the end of the 4 weeks the same tools will be re-administered. The difference between pre-test post-test scores will be analysed for evaluation of the effects.

A study done on students of International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan to assess the effectiveness of Mandala coloring as a therapeutic intervention for reducing anxiety among 100 university students by using state trait anxiety inventory. The researcher used State-Trait Anxiety Inventory to measure anxiety level among 100 university students within the age range of 18-34 years. The student’s anxiety level was assessed before and after coloring a pre-drawn Mandala. The results suggested significant difference in pre-test and post-test scores, with a t value = 8.91 which concluded that Mandala coloring as a therapeutic intervention in reducing anxiety. (Sarah Mehmood Noor, Mandala colouring as a therapeutic intervention for Anxiety reduction in University students, 2017)

A study done on students of International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan to assess the effectiveness of Mandala coloring as a therapeutic intervention for reducing anxiety among 100 university students by using state trait anxiety inventory. The researcher used State-Trait Anxiety Inventory to measure anxiety level among 100 university students within the age range of 18-34 years. The student’s anxiety level was assessed before and after coloring a pre-drawn Mandala. The results suggested significant difference in pre-test and post-test scores, with a t value = 8.91 which concluded that Mandala coloring as a therapeutic intervention in reducing anxiety. (Sarah Mehmood Noor, Mandala colouring as a therapeutic intervention for Anxiety reduction in University students, 2017) Mandalas are recently introduced in modern world of psychiatric health. But it is the more westernized version which can be used as a psychotherapy. Mandala art therapy is used as relaxation or as a tool for meditation, used to enhance insight and individuation, healing of self and helps in expression of self and unconscious mind.

The purpose of the study is to assess the effectiveness of Mandala Art Therapy among intellectually disabled children with regard to increase the attention and functional social skills thereby helping the children with intellectual disability to improve learning ability and social skills.