Animal-assisted therapy is not generally understood, said Irene Bertils whose daughter, Kelly, 14, has Asperger's syndrome, a type of autism. "People think it's just playing with horses ...

Recently, researchers explored the potential for therapy animals to help kids with autism and found that they were more effective than toys. The study, published in PLoS ONE, let a classroom of ...

A study has been launched on Queensland's Darling Downs into how animals can help children with autism. On a farm north-west of Toowoomba, horses and other farm animals are being used as a form of ...

Through the use of animal models, neuroscientists at the Tufts Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences are breaching new territory in the field of research on autism spectrum disorders (ASD), ...