Animal therapy is an increasingly popular treatment for autism. Many parents and caregivers say that their children enjoy animal therapy and that their children’s behavior improved with animal therapy.
The lives of people with autism can become very medicalized – doctors and parents can spend a lot of time and effort finding the right doctors for a child with autism, making sure they are on the right medications, and making sure they have the right accommodations at school.
In 1990 congress enacted ‘Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)’ to: 1) provide appropriate education for children with disabilities and, 2) to seek out and treat children with disabilities within school districts.
Emotional regulation is an individual’s ability to adapt to situations that evoke stress, anxiety, annoyance, or frustration. One of the big reasons that people with autism have difficulty managing difficult, emotionally-charged situations has to do with changes in their brain structure.
