Terapia asistida en el delfinario, vía para generar procesos comunicativos en niños autistas.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: This is a research project based on observing the work of language speech therapists in assisted therapy with dolphins and children with autism spectrum disorder and corroborating how, from neurodevelopment and the integration of sensory sensors, communication processes. METHODS: This is an observational qualitative study, based on a psychopedagogical biopsychosocial approach where an interdisciplinary relationship with science and health goals (psychology and child psychiatry) is found. RESULTS: The aim is to highlight the work in the dolphinarium and the intervention and communication processes that are generated in the assisted therapy with the dolphins and the creation of the "care guide to assist children with ASD in the dolphinarium", whose objective is is to train the professionals involved in the care, diagnosis and intervention of children with autism when they perform assisted therapy with animals in the dolphinarium ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION: The interaction of children with ASD (autism spectrum disorder) and dolphins allows the creation of alternate pathways for sensory and communicative stimulation of these users. It is evident that the multisensory stimulation of each patient with ASD allows to use each stimulus as a neurological response mechanism to focus attention and generate communication processes. CONCLUSIONS: Delphinotherapy was evidenced as a way of intervention that allowed to generate changes regarding the communicative, behavioral and social processes of children with autism, which allowed to achieve an adequate social interaction with the environment.