Using Animals in Treatment; a look at animal assisted therapies
October 13, 2020
Hosted by Germaine Seufert
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Episode Description
We review the concepts of Equine assisted therapy, Hippo therapy, adaptive riding and therapeutic riding to assist with individuals working on improving their regulation, connection with the world around them (proprioception), gaining confidence, and other therapeutic and rehabilitative needs. With a well trained and balanced animal, humans seem to increase their speed of recovery or decrease their hesitations with finding success with therapies. Along with a trained Speech Therapist, Occupational Therapist or Mental Health Therapist, an animal (anything from bunnies to dogs to horses and more) can help improve outcomes toward goals for individuals from children through adulthood.
More Than Special
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More Than Special is for parents, caregivers and professionals to discuss topics relevant to having a child with special needs or helping advocate for an individual who has intellectual or developmental differences. Whether an acquired delay, like a brain injury, or one from birth, like Down syndrome, or one with questionable cause, like autism or ADHD, helping individuals navigate multiple systems with ever changing rules or laws, is difficult. Special Education, Health Insurance, Housing, Stress and Burnout, Injustice and Discrimination are real issues for anyone in the special needs community. Join us for an open conversation about these and many more topics, on the VoiceAmerica Variety Channel.
Germaine Seufert
Germaine Seufert is a Licensed Counselor in Colorado who has been the Director of an Autism Intervention agency for the past eighteen years. In this time, matters of her clients’ health, happiness and wellness have changed over time with laws being created and implemented, resources coming and going, passionate individuals causing change for the good, research being conducted and overall awareness and acceptance increasing worldwide. Keeping up with this change and knowledge has been one of Germaine’s key interests to being able to be a resourceful and helpful individual for clients and community members. She now brings this wealth of knowledge to you. In her eighteen years of clinical experience, Germaine has advocated for children’s needs and the needs of those who are unable to advocate for themselves, through participating in legislation, learning about laws that impact decisions and regularly involving herself in making impactful and meaningful change in her community.
Episode Directory
October 2020
- 10/27/2020: Encore Mental Health Concerns and Preventing Suicide in Teens Listen Now
- 10/20/2020: Feeding Problems vs. Picky Eating and other matters of feeding difficulties Listen Now
- 10/13/2020: Using Animals in Treatment; a look at animal assisted therapies Listen Now
- 10/6/2020: Encore What is Mindblindness and Theory of Mind? Listen Now
