Sentences with phrase «pet for autistic children»

For this reason they are sometimes thought of as «nanny dogs» and they can make a good pet for autistic children.

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Therapy animal handlers can tell many compelling stories of the powerful effect of their work: people in memory care that talk to the therapy animal after months of silence, a child in the hospital that doesn't appear to feel pain while the animal is visiting, autistic children who speak for the first time after petting a therapy animal.

For example, in a study at the University of Queensland in Australia, 99 children from the ages of 5 to 13, some of whom were autistic and others who were not, were observed interacting with either toys or two classroom pet guinea pigs.

The study compared 12 autistic children who got a pet after the child turned 5 with 12 non-pet-owning autistic children (matched with pet - owning children for age, gender and language skills).