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Ersta Sköndal Bräcke Highschool, Stockholm, Sweden
HETI President Sanna Mattila-Rautiainen and HETI Journal-research and practice Editor Nina Ekholm-Fry are in Sweden for third nordic researcher seminar for Equine Facilitated Interventions.
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Lavender is the secret to keeping a horse calm, scientists find
Lavender is the secret to keeping a horse calm, a new study by scientists have found.www.autismspeaks.org/science-news/large-family-based-study-finds-80-percent-autism-risk-inherited...
Large family-based study finds 80 percent of autism risk is from inherited genes | Autism Speaks
A new study looking at autism in 5 countries found that 80 percent of autism risk can be traced to inherited genes rather than environmental factors and random mutations.Temple Grandin Equine Center
The Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of a Manualized Equine-assisted Occupational Therapy Intervention for Children with Autism
PI: B. Caitlin Peters, Ph.D., OTR/L Co-PI: Wendy Wood, Ph.D., OTR/L, FAOTA
Investigators from HHRF's 2018 awarded grant project "The Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of a Manualized Equine-assisted Occupational Therapy Intervention for Children with Autism" have completed their midway progress report. Dr. Caitlin Peters and Dr. Wendy Wood shared that 24 children with autism and their caregivers were enrolled in the study. Children were randomized to the treatment group or the waitlist control group. In the Spring of 2019, children in the treatment group received 10 weeks of equine-assisted occupational therapy (OT), while children in the waitlist control group received 10 weeks of nature-based OT in a garden environment. In the Summer of 2019, children in the waitlist control group received equine-assisted OT. One participant dropped from the study after being assigned to the control group; the remaining 23 participants are still enrolled in the study.
Preliminary outcomes show children in the Spring treatment group demonstrated improvements in overall social functioning, particularly in the domains of social communication and social motivation. Children in the Spring waitlist control group demonstrated very slight decreases in overall social functioning, including in the domains of social communication and social motivation. Children in both the treatment and control groups demonstrated improvements in irritability and hyperactivity, although it is too soon to tell if one group improved more than the other. Generally, ratings provided by the blinded rater were positively correlated with ratings provided by the caregiver.
Final result from this study are expected in Spring 2020.
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