Improving communicational skills at autistic children, using hippo therapy
Examinations show that about 8.7 of every 10,000 children are autistic and more than 1 in 300 children have some of the signs of autism
. These informations are not very friendly to hear but they show the contemporary situation.Autism has been characterized as a disorder in the developing that has affection on the children from their birth till the age of three. These children show problems in developing normal relationships with others in three areas of action - social relationships and interactions; language and communication; and their actions and interests.
The cause of autism is still obscure but the parents and the specialists are taking their best to examine it. One of the theses is that it is about some injury to the brain that has happened perhaps before the child was born, although this has not been finally proved, but also maybe in charges a genetic or chromosomal abnormality, viral agents, immune intolerance, metabolic disorders, or prenatal anoxia.
There are many procedures for treating autism and they all attend on coming up a way to make the autistic individual communicate more efficiently using social skills trainings. One of the procedures that are very effective for this disorder is the hippo therapy or horse therapy. The fact is that children love these animals; they are affected by their look, their stamina, love to play with horse toys, play horse games. In these conditions their communication with them is based not only on playing, but on some kind of connecting.
Hippo therapy is an expression used to describe the movement of a horse as part of a treatment action, used by physical, occupational, and speech therapists. Psychiatrists discovered that children with autism struggle to communicate but when they are with horses, they can accomplish so much. It's not about learning to ride or learning horse care skills; it's been clinically proven that just being near the horses, changes our brainwave patterns. Doctor Franklin Levinson claims that the horses have an appeasing effect that helps people to stop becoming fixated on past or on negative happenings.
It's proved the children can generally manage a horse more easily and more quickly than adults, advancing an equal relationship instead of trying to control. A child who is given just a little insight into dealing with a horse, very easy can become the natural leader the horse is looking for. The horse feels free from harm and calm, and for return cooperates with what the child asks of him.
This way the child can better his communication skills, his psychological, cognitive, and behavioural functioning, his motor skills and coordination, his sensory integration but also and his muscle tone, head and trunk control, postural control, his strength and cardiovascular conditioning.
Improving communicational skills at autistic children, using hippo therapy
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