Pet Therapy: A New Way of Reaching Students with Additional Disabilities

Autor/in	Mockler, Kimberly
Titel	Pet Therapy: A New Way of Reaching Students with Additional Disabilities
Quelle	In: Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 11 (2010) 1, S.23-24 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1544-6751
Schlagwörter	Animals; Therapy; Deafness; Multiple Disabilities; Preschool Children; Special Needs Students; Nonverbal Communication; Interpersonal Competence; Psychomotor Skills; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Animal; Tier; Tiere; Therapie; Gehörlosigkeit; Taubstummheit; Multiple disability; Mehrfachbehinderung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Sonderpädagogischer Förderbedarf; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Psychomotorische Aktivität
Abstract	In this article, the author discusses pet therapy, using therapy dogs, as a new way of reaching students with additional disabilities. Therapy dogs aid in instruction in a variety of ways. They are particularly suited to work with preschool-aged children and special needs populations where the curriculum most easily can incorporate a therapy dog into lessons. With these two populations, therapy dogs can assist with teaching eye contact (a vital lesson within classrooms for the deaf), turn taking (i.e., playing a game of fetch or Hide-and-Seek with the dog), and fine motor skills (i.e., brushing the dog and pouring water into a bowl for him or her). While most therapy dogs are hearing and trained auditorally, there are some deaf therapy dogs and hearing therapy dogs who are trained visually (using American Sign Language, standard obedience hand signals, or a combination of the two). These visually trained dogs are ideal therapy dogs for classrooms with deaf and hard of hearing students. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center. Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Avenue NE, KS 3600, Washington, DC 20002. Tel: 800-526-9105; Tel: 202-651-5340; Fax: 202-651-5708; e-mail: odyssey@gallaudet.edu; Web site: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10