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The study was conducted to investigate to see the "Influence of Play therapy in enhancing Motor Skills among Children with Intellectual Disabilities". The sample consists of children with moderate intellectual disability age ranging from 7-14 years. Size of the sample consist 10 subjects. They were randomly assigned into experimental and control groups. Each group consists of five subjects. For conducting the study, Pre-test Post-test Control Group Design was used. The students in the experimental group were taught Play Therapy with colourful materials and control group were taught through conventional method. The results indicated that there is a significant improvement in enhancing Gross Motor Skills and Fine Motor Skills. In addition, the rate of training among the students in experimental group was higher than the control group. From the results it is evident that the children who were taught through Play Therapy have achieved higher score than the children who were taught through conventional method