| Dolphins are intelligent and sentimental mammals. | | | | and stimulate their positive behaviour and their |
| Dolphins were very popular with the ancient Greeks | | | | speaking skills, reducing the amount of stress they are |
| and with the Romans around the Mediterranean Sea. | | | | exposed to. These dolphins are kept in a habitat which |
| There are a lot of similarities between the human brain | | | | is very close to their natural one, these conditions being |
| and the brains of dolphins, these animals being capable | | | | essential with this kind of therapy. The sounds these |
| of perceiving their training through caresses. Dolphins | | | | mammals make act like stimuli when it comes to the |
| can treat a series of very serious illnesses, such as | | | | human brain, determining major changes with the kids' |
| brain paralysis with children, the Down syndrome, the | | | | behaviour. There were even cases in which the little |
| severe hearing problems, the severe visual problems, | | | | ones didn't speak at all, but after being helped by this |
| different affections of the spinal cord and so on. | | | | therapy, they became very sociable, saying "mother" |
| These mammals can understand different kinds of | | | | for the first time. Many people have heard about the |
| problems people can have; they can differentiate them | | | | fact that swimming with dolphins can calm all kinds of |
| and finally treat them accordingly. The best therapy | | | | spasms. Moreover, these mammals can also help |
| centre in Europe is situated in Turkey and it has | | | | people with cardiac problems and can also cure |
| become very popular among people who suffer from | | | | different kinds of depression. |
| different illnesses. This centre helps people who suffer | | | | Dolphins help people understand that the environment |
| from autism, form brain paralysis and many more. | | | | is there to help them and for them to enjoy it, and a |
| The treatment with the best results is that for autism. | | | | few hours of playing with the dolphin can help them |
| The dolphins in this centre allow the kids suffering from | | | | start a new life. |
| autism to climb on their back and they walk with them | | | | |