ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Improvement of Self-Esteem in Children with Specific Learning Disorders after Donkey-Assisted Therapy.
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- Effectiveness of animal-assisted services for school-aged children: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Mutual wellbeing in an equine-assisted intervention: experimental evidence for the two-way hypothesis and the importance of interaction method.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- A Comparative Review of Donkey Genetic Resources, Production Traits, and Industrial Utilization: Perspectives from China and Globally.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- A Qualitative Exploration of the Lived Experiences and Perspectives of Equine-Assisted Services Practitioners in the UK and Ireland.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Donkey-assisted therapy in mental health conditions: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Building up bit by bit, parent's experiences of equine-assisted intervention among children and adolescents with mental illness: a grounded theory study.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2024Article
- Animal-Assisted Interventions: Factors Affecting Donkey Behaviours and Attitude Toward Humans.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Unconventional Animal Species Participation in Animal-Assisted Interventions and Methods for Measuring Their Experienced Stress.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- Effectiveness of the Use of Virtual Reality Rehabilitation in Children with Dyslexia: Follow-Up after One Year.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Animal-Assisted Education: Exploratory Research on the Positive Impact of Dogs on Behavioral and Emotional Outcomes of Elementary School Students.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Dyslexia is a learning disorder related to receptive language characterized by difficulties with decoding, fluent word recognition, automatic naming skills and/or reading comprehension skills. It usually leads to severe functional impairment and the permanent need for support and interventions. Since animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) have been found to improve physical, emotional, cognitive and/or social functioning in humans, the aim of this study is to demonstrate the effectiveness of onotherapy on children with SLD by improving self-esteem and school performance. Sixteen patients with a diagnosis of dyslexia were randomly assigned to two treatment groups: the first was a conventional neuropsychological group therapy without onotherapy, and the second was a neuropsychological group therapy incorporating AAIs with therapy donkeys. The neuropsychological assessment included the WISC-IV, DDE and the TMA test, which were administered before and after the treatment in both groups. The results of the experimental group show significant improvement in word reading test correctness (
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