ISEP shares the best clinical sessions and master’s final projects from its students through the Thesis Corner. This time, Pilar Liria Plañiol, a student of ISEP’s Postgraduate Program in Neuropsychology of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, presents her clinical session Animal-Assisted Therapy.
Her work, in addition to including a brief introduction to Animal-Assisted Therapies (AAT) and, specifically, dog therapies, focuses on The Smiles of a Child with Autism Spectrum. It aims to quantitatively measure the smiles of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, using an interface device during animal-assisted activities for a limited time of 7 months, and compare them with the results obtained from children of the same age without disorders.
Consult Pilar Liria Plañiol’s clinical session on Animal-Assisted Therapy and Autism
The clinical sessions of the Postgraduate Program in Neuropsychology of Neurodevelopmental Disorders are works carried out by the students themselves that require an exhaustive review of a topic of their choice. For its development, it is necessary to consult scientific literature in English (high-impact journals) and prepare an outline that they develop in a PowerPoint presentation of approximately 80 slides, which they defend publicly for a maximum of 75 minutes (videos included). Once presented, it is subject to questions or clarifications from their peers and/or the postgraduate program coordinator.