This is good for children in special education because the child needs to have imagination and needs to see what he/she can do and what he/she can accomplish. I especially think that children in special education should do color and paint and do stuff in art. But other children should also do things in art. Art builds up your thinking skills in multiple ways. The color, and size, and shape. I know that might sound like nothing hard but it is good for your mind to think about basic ideas.
Art kind of can motivate some people, but art can especially motivate special education children. It helps the child know that they can do something and can make their colors. These are some more reasons special education children need to play with art and do art things.
If you a want to try to teach a child with special education this is a good website for you. The URL is http://earlychildhoodmichigan.org/articles/6-05/Zund el6-05.htm. Also the things I will list are what you need with special needs by a child.
1.) Patients
2.) A strong approach
3.) Try to make not to many rules (maybe 1, 2, or 3)
Children and even adults with special needs need to do some art to keep their mind off everything else. The children need a break a lot. The special needs children need time for whatever they want. For once don't have everything planned out for him/her. Children in special education will have fun and maybe smile a bit with art. Make the art like a fun game. Compliment the special needs children with their art work.
Art needs to be fun for the children; don't make them do a certain project. Let the children pick their own project to do what they want with. Children with special needs and special education need their parents to love them. Usually during the art the children with special needs want you there the whole time. I would make sure the child likes art before pushing the child to hard to do some art. Art will make a lot of special education children happy that they did most or all of the work by themselves and the children will usually act like they did it by themselves.
If the children or child does not like art don't force them to do art or play with art. The special needs education children usually like art and I would try having them do art. Art could be fun for a child with special needs and special education. I'm not a big fan of art but I think that art would help your child or children have fun. This is for not special needs children also.