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Occupational therapy that incorporates horses helps reduce the body's stress response in autistic children, according to new research from Colorado State University.
"That power of the horse-human interaction for autistic children has often been referred to as 'magic,' but this study provides empirical data to support and explain how interacting with horses impacts autistic children physiologically," said Caiti Peters, an assistant professor in CSU's departments of Occupational Therapy and Animal Sciences. She leads research at the Temple Grandin Equine Center in Denver and Fort Collins and is a co-author on this study.
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