The University Expert in Animal-Assisted Speech Therapy Intervention will enable you to learn about the latest updates in Speech Therapy Intervention with horses for people with acquired brain damage”

In recent years, dogs, horses or some farm species have ceased to be simple food or companion animals and have become an active part of synergistic and balanced relationships with people, helping them to overcome their speech therapy problems. In this sense, their intervention can help in a relevant way to enhance the development of a more functional communication in those users with whom they work. For this reason, knowledge of the most advanced techniques for the performance of these assisted therapies is essential for all specialists who wish to optimize their professional update.

This is why TECH has designed this program, through which the student will delve into the advances in Animal Assisted Speech Therapy Intervention. During 600 intensive hours of learning, you will identify cutting-edge treatments for the speech therapy problems of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder with the help of dogs or horse therapy for individuals with acquired brain damage. Likewise, it will determine the updated protocols for the design and planning of the Speech Therapy Intervention with these animals.

All this, following a completely online methodology, which will enable the specialist to obtain effective learning through the development of their own study schedules. It will also have a series of didactic materials available in a wide range of textual and multimedia formats that vary from one another. As a result, you will acquire an education completely adapted to your study preferences.

Throughout this academic itinerary, you will learn about state-of-the-art protocols for the design and planning of Speech Therapy Intervention using animals such as horses or dogs”

This postgraduate diploma in Animal Assisted Speech Therapy Intervention contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• The development of practical cases presented by experts in Speech Therapy
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where the self-assessment process can be carried out to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

Study from anywhere in the world and at any time you consider appropriate thanks to the completely online delivery of this degree”

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from the field who contribute their work experience to this educational program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

Its multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will allow the professional a situated and contextual learning, that is, a simulated environment that will provide an immersive education programmed to train in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the academic year For this purpose, the students will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts. 

Detect, with this program, the updated treatments of Dog Assisted Speech Therapy Intervention for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder"

Enjoy an enjoyable and completely effective teaching, learning through modern didactic formats such as the interactive summary or the self-assessment test"

The program of University Expert in Animal Assisted Speech Therapy Intervention has been designed with the intention of promoting the updating of knowledge in this field by the specialist. Therefore, they will be able to identify avant-garde therapies with horses to favor the communicative improvement or the recent benefits found from these treatments in different groups of people with specific characteristics, preserving their learning by means of the following objectives. 

Adopt in your daily work routine the latest techniques of Animal Assisted Speech Therapy Intervention thanks to this University Expert”

General Objectives

• To analyze the origin and evolution of human-animal relationships in order to justify the importance of the bond between them. in order to justify the importance of the link between them
• To present the different lines of research that are being carried out in the field of Animal Assisted Interventions. of Animal Assisted Interventions
• To establish the general foundations that justify the efficiency of therapeutic work in the field of Animal Assisted Interventions. in the field of Animal Assisted Interventions
• Detect the main characteristics of the population groups susceptible to receive this type of intervention
• To analyze the figure of the speech therapist within the field of Animal Assisted Intervention (AAI)
• Delimit the different fields of action of the speech therapist within Animal Assisted Intervention
• Design and plan Animal Assisted Interventions within the speech therapy field
• Examine current developments and lines of research
• To substantiate the benefits and importance of animal-assisted therapies for different target populations in different target populations
• To generate specialized knowledge for the selection of the different species and breeds of animals that can intervene in the field of Animal Assisted Interventions
• Substantiate importance of a comprehensive training process for animals collaborating in animal-assisted interventions
• Establish parameters required to educate and train animals as co-therapists
• Assess efficiency of specialists carrying out educational process for animals as co-therapists 

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Animal Assisted Therapy Intervention

• Examine the importance of human-animal relationships throughout history in order to better understand their expansion and current development
• Study the history and evolution of animal-assisted therapies and interventions
• Demonstrate the validity of Animal Assisted Therapies and Interventions through documented studies
• To delimit the main concepts that revolve around the modalities and fields of application of Animal Assisted Interventions
• Differentiate the different work methodologies that can be found in the field of Animal Assisted Interventions
• Identify the different species of animals most frequently involved in the field of Animal Assisted Interventions, as well as their main characteristics
• To know the main benefits and harms related to Animal Assisted Interventions
• Establish the most important protection, prevention and safety measures in the work of Animal Assisted Interventions
• Review some of the ethical and moral considerations arising from animal work

Module 2. intervention within Areas in Animal-Assisted Interventions (AAI)

• Identify the main characteristics of users with physical and/or motor needs and sensory impairments
• Determine the characteristics and needs of those users with cognitive and/or intellectual impairments
• Recognize, differentiate and know the characteristics of the main groups at risk of social exclusion
• Identify the main characteristics and needs in the field of early care and the socio-educational field
• Delimit the areas of intervention within the processes of personal growth and team building
• Establish the group of animals at risk of exclusion as a field of intervention within Animal Assisted Interventions (AAI)

Module 3. Animals.-Assisted Therapies and Interventions:  The basics of speech Approach

• Define and differentiate basic terminology in the field of speech therapy
• Identify the different intervention Fields Speech
• To develop different methodologies and forms of intervention within the field of Speech Therapy through Animal Assisted Interventions (AAI)
• Conocer las principales formas de comunicación y sus vías de expresión
• To define the profile of the speech therapist in Equine Assisted Interventions, as well as his main intervention objectives
• To Determine the profile of the speech therapist in Dogs. Assisted Interventions, as well as his main intervention objectives
• Identify the speech therapy needs of users and how they can be met through Animal Assisted Interventions (AAI)

Module 4. Selection, Education, Training and Training of the Animal as a Co-Therapist

• Identify the fundamental traits that the animal that will work in the field of Animal Assisted Interventions (AAI) must have
• Establish the criteria for the selection of the dog as a co-therapist in Animal Assisted Interventions
• Establish the criteria for the selection of the Horses as a co-therapist in Animal Assisted Interventions
• To have the general characteristics for a correct selection of marine mammals and other animals to work in the field of Animal Assisted Interventions
• To understand the different learning theories in order to make the work of training the animal as a cotherapist much more efficient
• Establish the optimal processes of socialization and socialization of the animal to be used in Animal Assisted Interventions
• To have at one's disposal the different methodologies for the training of the animal as a cotherapist
• Optimize the training process of the animal, as well as its work in the field of AAI
• Collect information on the different materials that can be used in the field of AAI
• Implement a method for monitoring and evaluation of the animal's work as a co-therapist

A unique training experience, key and decisive to boost your professional development”