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Social acceptance is one of the key area for survival in the world. Everyone wants to be a part of group where he/ she can feel safe and related to each other. Quality of life is fully determined by how much and how well a person interact socially. Children with nonverbal learning disability lack in their social skills and hereby miss out the essential need for leading a better and blissful quality of life. The study is conducted to find out the perception of special educators on usage of collaborative artwork activities as an intervention for developing social communication skills among children with nonverbal learning disability. The reason why the study is chosen is that none of the study has been conducted to know perception of special educators for children with nonverbal learning disability for their development in social communication skills using collaborative artwork activities. The study is conducted through survey method. The sample taken for the study was 80 special educators. The study was completely restricted to special educators of Delhi-NCR. Only those special educators were considered who were registered in Rehabilitation council of India. A survey form was developed by researcher in which four collaborative artwork activities were taken and on the basis of those activities 32(8 in each activity) close ended statements were there. The data was collected through online mode in the form of Google forms. Then it was analysed using various statistical techniques like mean, standard deviation, t test. From the analysis it has been found that collaborative artwork activities can be used for development of social communication skills among children with nonverbal learning disability according to special educators� perception. It was also found that gender and nature of organisation in which special educator work make a significant difference in special educators� perception.