Pilot Study Investigating the Role of Therapy Dogs in Facilitating Social Interaction among Children with Autism

被引：43

作者：

Fung S.-C. ^{[1
]}

Leung A.S.-M. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Department of Special Education and Counselling, Hong Kong Institute of Education, D2/2/25, 10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, New Territories

[2] Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Ho Tim Building, Room 208, Shatin, New Territories

来源：

Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy | 2014年 / 44卷 / 4期

关键词：

Animal-assisted play therapy; Animal-assisted therapy; Autism; Social interaction; Structured play;

D O I：

10.1007/s10879-014-9274-z

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摘要：

Ten children with autism, aged 7–10, attended 14 individual sessions of social interaction therapy. A group-comparison design was adopted. Comparing two interventions, matching and random assignment were used to form the experimental group (Animal-Assisted Play Therapy with a therapy dog) and the comparison group (an identical play therapy procedure using a doll as the dog surrogate). The within-group results using nonparametric tests showed that verbal social behavior increased significantly in the experimental group. Although the magnitude of this increase was not significantly larger than that in the comparison group, the preliminary findings suggested that the therapy dog had a positive impact on language output. The results are discussed in terms of the role that a therapy dog can fulfill as a “Speech Elicitor” for children with autism. © 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.

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