Diagnoses of the Dolphin Therapy participants
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperacivity Disorder) Agenesis of corpus Callosum Angelman Syndrome Anoxia Aphasia Autism Behavioural Disorder Cerebral Palsy Chromosomal Disorder Congenital Microcephaly Crouzon Syndrome Depression Down Syndrome Dysarthria Dyslexia Encephalitis Epilepsy Friedrich Ataxia Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome Incontinentia Pigmenti Krabbe Disease	Landau-Kleffner Syndrome Mental Retardation Mucoploysaccharidoses Optic Athropy Otahara Syndrom Paraplegia Progressive myoklonic Epilepsy Qudriplegia Radioulnar Synostosis Rett Syndrome Ring Chromosom 22 Schizencephaly Tay-Sachs-Syndrome Williams Syndrome Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome

The benefits of Dolphin Therapy

Swimming with dolphins creates an effect that gives joy and peace of mind, enforces the immune system, improves awareness, attention and self-control and develops feelings of compassion and self-confidence. As the interest and curiosity for the outside world expands, the capacity to benefit from inter-personal relations improves radically. Consequently, patients who recieve ergotherapy ,logopedy or physiotherapy will benefit from these treatments much faster and more thoroughly. After the dolphin therapy, disabled children build a capacity to learn faster; in one or two months, they can acquire the knowledge and physical skills that will normally take them a year to learn. Dolphin therapy accelerates the learning process two to ten times the normal rate, and this improvement will be effective from six months up to a year. A six-year-old autistic child went through the dolphin therapy and received special tutoring and therapies for a year; he got rid of all autistic symptoms and when he came back for the dolphin therapy the following year, no autistic traits were observed. Swimming with Dolphins Each morning, the participant with special needs is taken to the pool and is encouraged to swim with the dolphin for thirty minutes. The participant stays in close contact with the dolphin, cuddles and kisses the dolphin; the dolphin sings to the participant and helps him/her swim, carrying the participant who holds on to its fins. A buoyant relationship between the participant and the dolphin is experienced. A feeling of joy and peace dominates the whole affair, which cannot be experienced in any other circumstance. This exercise is supervised by Dr. Murat Kemaloğlu, together with a dolphin instructor, and a sports teacher experienced in tutoring children with special needs. Swimming with dolphins for half an hour enhances the child’s awareness and curiosity to the outside world. The participant builds his capacity to benefit from inter-personal relations. As a consequence, an acceleration is observed in the learning process of children who are tutored by special instructors, who take speech lessons and who are treated with physical therapy. After the dolphin therapy, children with special needs learn new information and physical skills in a much more shorter time; it takes an average of one or two months to acquire such skills, which initially took six months or a year to learn. Special diving suits are needed to keep the child warm in the pool. We advise parents to obtain such suits before joining the programme.