#dolphin world

Recently our contest prize - swimming with dolphins at "Dolphin World" dolphinarium (Hurghada, Egypt) was finally received to the winner, who was so kind to share her emotions with us! Have a nice day!

"Aquatoria Daily" is going to tell you about the dolphin assisted therapy as a method of rehabilitation on the example of our "Dolphin World" dolphintherapy center. Website: http://egypt.delfinary.com/index.php/en/ Dolphin assisted therapy is a unique, non-traditional approach to psychotherapy, where the process of psychotherapy is deeply connected with the process of human and dolphin interspecies communication. The uniqueness of method connected with the great amount of active factors, directly involved into process. Among these factors the following might be determined: emotional, sensorial, motional, playful, bioenergetics, ultrasonic. - Our dolphin assisted therapy center in Hurghada works all year round and is opened at your service every day, except Tuesday. - The dolphin assisted therapy itself passes with the participation of specially educated and trained dolphins. The coach watches and controls the dolphins and is directly responsible for all necessary work they make. - Child is always accompanied by the psychologist or rehabilitologist in a pool, the duty of these specialists is to organize the kid’s contact with the dolphin and to provide the correction work within the dolphin assisted therapy framework. The duration of dolphin assisted therapy process is usually equals to 30 minutes and might be conditionally divided into two parts: game part and water part. The game part lasts for approximately 10 minutes and includes different kinds of games with the dolphin on a dais: songs, dancing, game with a ball, with a ring, dolphin’s drawings, tactile contact with the dolphin – the dolphin is allowed to be touched, pet, embraced, kissed, etc. The water part is a direct contact with the dolphin in water. The duration of water part is about 20 minutes. It is well-known, that dolphin assisted therapy positively affects the cognitive and behavioral aspects of child’s life, helps his socialization, increases perseverance and internal motivation for studies. All these allow combining the dolphin assisted therapy with other correctional and rehabilitation studies. In our dolphin assisted therapy center you are able to combine the therapy with the following services: - Sessions with the psychologist - Sessions with the speech therapist - Massage sessions - LFC - Hippo therapy sessions The individual session outline - The free transfer of child and parents is available from the hotel to the dolphin assisted therapy center; - The dolphin assisted therapy session starts with the dolphintherapist consultation, by which the medical history of child (so called “anamnesis”) is collecting, the physical and mental state of the baby is specifying, the requests of parents are defining and the outline for the whole course in general and for every single session is developing; - The introduction and welcome – the establishing contact among the child, dolphintherapist and dolphin; - The game – the child’s contact with the dolphin goes deeper with the assistance of the game. - The water part – the contact with the dolphin in the water environment, during which the intensive sensorial, locomotion and ultrasonic impact are providing; - The farewell part – the ending of dolphin assisted therapy process, farewell with the dolphin; - The fixing and correction parts – sessions with the psychologist, speech therapist, massage therapist. The fixing of mastered during the process of dolphin assisted therapy perks take place, new perks are mastering; - The consultation part – the summary of the session is concluding and the new aims for the following session are defining. The parents receiving their “home tasks”; - After all procedures ending our free transfer transports the child and the parents to the hotel.

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The happy mother in "Dolphin World" after passing the dolphin assisted therapy course (the kid has autistic disorder)

Web site: http://egypt.delfinary.com/index.php/en/