Canistarapy in the rehabilitation of special children. Becker I.M.

This small manual tells not only that the dog is a human friend. The dog can still be a successful and excellent doctor - to treat our children from ailments associated with damage to the nervous system and mental functions of the child. This is especially true for children with early childhood autism and some cognitive disorders. The most important result that we expect and get from the communication of a child with a specially trained dog, an improvement in the emotional state and communicative ties of the child. From regular communication with a warm and affectionate animal, the child is revealed as a spring flower from the first rays of the sun, he begins to reach for a dog, and after that the first sprouts of the ability to inter -human communication appear.

in the manual designed for parents of special Children and doctors who want to join this unusual method of rehabilitation are given many examples and cases from the life and practice of canistrapy, tells about the difficult path of a special child to improve social communication and entering the ordinary human world.