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Originally posted by Wisen Heimer
(...) Charkovsky and his team had taken a woman to the Black Sea in Israel for an underwater birth. (...)
Originally posted by MischeviousElf
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On the emotional healing level there are many people who claim some amazing experiances and results with dolphins.
DolphinTherapy
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Dr. Ken Marten at Sea Life Park in Hawai'i recently demonstrated that dolphins recognize themselves in mirrors, which shows dolphins are self-aware, a trait shared with only humans and great apes. Dolphins were also taught to recognize some 40 spoken Hawaiian words by Dr. Wayne Batteau, and were taught to imitate English by Dr. John C. Lilly, M.D. Dolphins currently working with Dr. Louis Herman in Hawai'i can recognize some 300 hand signs in some 2000 combinations.2 Dolphins have done better at language tasks than any other creature. Research in Russia by Markov and Ostrovskaya concludes that dolphins have their own language with up to a trillion "words" possible.
Dolphins, Therapy and Autism
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Dolphins are very intelligent animals, officially the Bottlenose dolphin is the next most intelligent animal after man. As a result of this intelligence dolphins are naturally curious animals and will instinctively investigate anything that is unusual to them, including us. Their intelligence has also allowed them to develop language to an extent, so far scientists have had little success in deciphering delphinic language and there is sum debate as to whether it could be defined as a real language. However the research in delphinic communication has revealed one important thing, dolphins have names; every dolphin studied was found to a special sound that represented it's name, called a callsig. Other members of the pod would use this sound to attract the dolphin or simply call it out just to see where it was. This may not sound like much but it proved one important thing, dolphins have a concept of self, to understand the concept of individual names they must first understand (or as the very least be aware of) individuality and all of the things which go with it.
General Behaviour of Dolphins
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"The voice of the dolphin in air is like that of the human, in that they can pronounce vowels, and combinations of vowels" - Aristotle
Originally posted by MischeviousElf
Excellent Post at first blush....
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Nathanson, D.E. 2007. Reinforcement effectiveness of animatronic and real dolphins. Anthrozoos 20(2):181-194.
Where research was conducted: Dolphin Cove, Key Largo, Florida and Helen Sands pool, Homestead, Florida.
When research was conducted: 2004.
Research subjects: Thirty five children from seven countries, with diagnoses of Angelman syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, mental retardation, microcephaly, muscular dystrophy, pervasive development disorder, Rett syndrome, Smith-Lemi-Opitz, tuberous sclerosis.
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Nathanson, D.E. 1998. Long term effectiveness of dolphin assisted therapy for children with severe disabilities. Anthrozoos 11(1):22-32.
Where research was conducted: Dolphins Plus, Key Largo, Florida, and Miami Seaquarium, Miami, Florida.
When research was conducted: 1995-1997.
Research subjects: Seventy-one sets of parents from 8 countries. Diagnoses of children included Angelman syndrome, Asperger syndrome, attention deficit disorder, autism, cerebral palsy, developmental delay, Down syndrome, hydrocephaly, microcephaly, pervasive developmental disorder, Rett syndrome, traumatic brain injury, tuberous sclerosis.
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Nathanson, D.E., de Castro, D., Friend, H., & McMahon. M. 1997. Effectiveness of short-term dolphin assisted therapy for children with severe disabilities. Anthrozoos. 10(2/3):90-100.
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Where research was conducted: Dolphins Plus, Key Largo, Florida.
When research was conducted: 1995-1996.
Research subjects: Forty-seven children, 2-3 years of age (19 with cerebral palsy, 11 with brain damage, 5 with Down syndrome, 4 with Autism, 2 with Rett syndrome, 2 with tuberculosis, 1 with Cri-du-chat, and 1 with head injury).
Question Investigated: Can two weeks of the Dolphin Human Therapy program achieve the same or better results than six months of conventional physical or speech therapy?
Results: Significantly greater improvement and more cost effective treatment results from intensive therapy with Dolphin Human Therapy.
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Originally posted by Wisen Heimer
There are videos that document these babies and children up to age three, sleeping on the bottom of swimming pools. They even come up for air whilst still asleep and turn their heads over the surface of the water, take a breath, then go back to the bottom. It is as though this is their natural home. Some people call them ‘Homodolphinus’ , because they seem to have the characteristics of humans and dolphins. Water is becoming their natural environment.