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Studies show that about 8.7 of every 10,000 children are autistic and more than 1 in 300 children have some of the marks of autism. Even if these details are not very acceptable to hear, they are showing the general situation.
Autism is explained as a disorder in the improvement that affects emotionally on the children from birth till the age of three. These children show complications in developing normal relationships with others in three areas of attitude - social relationships and interactions; language and communication; and when it's about their activeness and interests.
The cause of autism stays distant but the parents and the professionals are taking their best to figure it. One of the theories speaks about some loss to the brain that has happened perhaps prenatal, despite the fact this has not been convincingly proved, but also maybe contracted some genetic or chromosomal abnormality, viral agents, metabolic disorders, immune intolerance or prenatal anoxia.
Exist are many approaches for treating autism, all focused on discovering a way to make the autistic individual communicate more capably, using social skills trainings. Hippo therapy or horse therapy is one of the methods that appear very effective for this disorder. The fact is that the children love horses; they are fascinated by their appearing, their energy, love to play with horse toys, playhorse games. In this context their communication with them is based not only on playing, but on some sort of joining together.
Hippo therapy is a name used to describe the movement of a horse as part of a treatment approach, that use the physical, occupational, and speech therapists. Psychiatrists have detected that children with autism struggle to communicate but when they are with horses, they can acquire so much. It's not about teaching riding or horse care skills, the thing is that has been clinically proven that just being around of horses changes our brainwave patterns. Doctor Franklin Levinson says that the horses have an ataractic effect which helps people to stop being fixated on past or negative acts.
Has been proven the children can regularly manage a horse more easily and more quickly than adults, building up an equal relationship preferably than trying to control. A child who is given just a little awareness into dealing with a horse can easily become the natural leader the horse is looking for. The horse feels free from danger and at peace, and for return will cooperate with the wishes of the child.
This way the child can develop 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.
