Video reportaje sobre la gestión de la hipoterapia y sus efectos en el lenguaje y la comunicación en niños con autismo de la UER – Quito.

Abstract

This research seeks to make known through a video report communication and verbal and non- verbal language in the context of hippotherapy treatment in children with autism. The benefits offered by hippotherapy in verbal and non-verbal language starting from autism spectrum disorder, which is a condition that alters an individual's ability to communicate and socialize with others and lasts a lifetime. The practice of hippotherapy is proposed as an alternative solution, which improves and develops communication and social skills that are essential to form a social fabric and an inclusive community. Horse-assisted therapy improves the neurological system and the motor part of patients thanks to the three-dimensional movements of the horse that stimulate these points, resulting in the increase of codes and forms of verbal and non-verbal expression, progressing and expanding the way of building more stable links to interact with their environment.