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Swimming with Dolphins
Family Therapy
Play Therapy

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.

Family Therapy

The family is of great importance in the development of the child; all families are introduced to a family-therapy programme for 2 hours.

In families with chronic ailments, anxiety and concern for the future may inhibit the development of the child.

Therefore, families of the children in therapy are introduced to a family-therapy programme each day for 2 hours, where they are instructed about mental techniques that will help them get rid of their worries and anxieties.

Play Therapy

Tutors play with children one by one or in groups, and improve their
social skills.

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2008 Bookings

Bookings for Antalya Soulscience School Dolphin Therapy Program 2008 have started and they are going on.There are still free therapyplaces available. Please contact us.

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first child from Poland

Our first child from Poland benefited from dolphin therapy. His mother wrote: >>

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Dolphin Therapy Interns

International and local participants to the Dolphin Therapy Programme in 2006 >>

INTERVIEW WITH INTERNS

Our interns speaking live about dolphin therapy

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DOLPHIN THERAPY LODGING

Hotels and boarding houses in the vicinity and center of Antalya, where you can stay during the Dolphin Therapy >>

ABOUT ANTALYA

Special Section about Antalya, the city where Dolphin Therapy take places >>

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Dr. Murat Kemaloglu

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