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Music therapy is known to help children with Autism Spectrum Disorder strengthen their social skills. However, there is a shortage in research that supports this theory. A. Blythe LaGasse decided to research how music therapy affected eye gaze, joint attention, and communication skills in children who have been diagnosed with Autism. LaGasse’s hypothesis states the article, Effects of a Music Therapy Group Intervention on Enhancing Social Skills in Children with Autism, is relevant because it…

The skill and techniques utilised by practitioners of NLP enable them to break learned behaviours or habits and create new ones. If you force yourself to get up early and go for a run, before work or the kids then this requires effort. If you persevere for 30 days then it will become a habit which requires very little effort. Through NLP you can learn how to shortcut this habit forming process. Your mind and the minds of others are there for the training. NLP allows you to see other peoples…

Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disability that affects how a person communicates with, and relates to other people. Autistic children struggle with social interaction, communication, and/or with repetitive and restrictive behaviors on a regular day basis. About 1 in 68 children has been identified with ASD according to estimates from the CDC. The occurrence of ASD is 4.5 times more in males than in females. Autism Spectrum Disorder does not discriminate and is present…

people engage in behavior based on feelings or what we would like to partake in. Now when we look at how social experiences and social surroundings really affect what behaviors we tend to have. We see that it’s not just a personal feeling or reaction it really is an effect of what has happened around us or what society is doing around us. After reading about this specific topic in chapter one and then discussing the term it class, it really means to personally to me that behaviors we…

When a Life Can No Longer Be Free Confining animals in small spaces or stalls is harmful for their health, restricts natural behavior, negatively affects mood, and eliminates needed social interaction. This type of confinement is extremely harsh and immoral and must not be allowed. The veal and horse industries, especially, have been taking advantage of these large animals to benefit them and make their jobs easier. Multiple diseases and a lack of needed resources has caused a downfall in the…

Through the research I conducted on Hippotherapy and my …. in to my personal worldviews I feel strongly that Hippotherapy is able to improve balance and posture in children with Cerebral Palsy. The four studies I analyzed all demonstrated significant findings. Zaniker and Kastrin (2011) looked at both posture and balance in their systematic review and found Hippotherapy improved both. Further to this Dubuse, Gibb & Chandler (2009) found that Hippotherapy did improve posture and balance. With…

One of the main deviances of Piaget and Kohlberg’s’ theories was that Piaget believed that interaction with peers would have an impact on their moral development, Kohlberg believed that the development was about the persons own thinking and that authority or their peers’ did not have an impact on their moral development (Kohlberg, L., and Hersh, R. 2009). Due to Venables and Thompsons actions it is believed that their moral development was created in the cognitive way; in which they learnt from…

Down Syndrome is a chromosomal condition in newborns in which most commonly there is an additional copy of chromosome 21 in the child’s DNA. (NHS 2015) This disability may include an intellectual delay, variable learning disabilities, and often a very certain physical appearance. They mostly share the same physical features with their parents but are also recorded to have a broad, flat face with eyes slanting upwards and a small nose. (NHS 2015) Although a child with Down syndrome can do most…

violent video games called “Video Games and Children,” in this article they had an interesting statement, “Studies of children exposed to violent media have shown that they may become numb to violence, imitate the violence, and show more aggressive behavior. Younger children and those with emotional, behavioral or learning problems may be more influenced by violent images.” The argument over this statement is pretty straight forward, people under the age of seventeen are not supposed to be able…

Methods Neurocognitive Assessment: Neurocognitive assessment will be performed by a team of trained psychologist. Patients will be evaluated using classical well-validated paradigms designed to measure a set cold and hot executive functions in a touch screen interactive platform (Cold functions: sustained attention, shifting attention, response inhibition, working memory; hot functions: conditioned learning, sensibility to reward). The system allows to individualize the characteristics (response…