{"id":2904,"date":"2015-05-21T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T23:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:50:22","slug":"animals-presence-eases-anxiety-in-children-with-asd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=2904","title":{"rendered":"Animals&#8217; Presence Eases Anxiety In Children With ASD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/guinea-pig-tan.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis is a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nichd.nih.gov\/news\/releases\/Pages\/052015-animal-presence-autism.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">research<\/a> showing how the presence of animals eases the anxiety of kids with ASD in a social interaction context. Kids with autism have shown a drop in their anxiety level during social interactions in the presence of guinea pigs, compared to social interactions while playing with toys, or silent reading, or loud reading.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CEBjTWBwt8Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe topic is not new. It has been proved time after time how much kids with autism have benefited from a companion pets. Here are some posts:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=797\">Dogs Can Help Your Child With Autism<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=2494\" target=\"_blank\">Iris Grace, A Five-Year Old Gifted Painter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=2705\" target=\"_blank\">Equine Therapy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am not asking the parents to rush to a breeder or a pet store to get their child a companion animal. Much simpler would be, to spend a day at a farm, visit animals theme parks, or animal shelters, humane society, wildlife refuge, zoos, and parks. Also, find places where children are allowed to pet or feed animals. Try your neighbor&#8217;s dog, cat, rabbit, bird, gold fish,&#8230;See for yourself how your kid behaves in the presence of an animal. For some kids, their communication with animals facilitates that with people.<\/p>\n<p>It is the <strong>presence<\/strong> of the animal, not necessarily its proximity or physical touch, that makes the difference.<\/p>\n<p>nadia shanab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a new research showing how the presence of animals eases the anxiety of kids with ASD in a social interaction context. Kids with autism have shown a drop in their anxiety level during social interactions in the presence of guinea pigs, compared to social interactions while playing with toys, or silent reading, or &#8230; <a title=\"Animals&#8217; Presence Eases Anxiety In Children With ASD\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=2904\" aria-label=\"Read more about Animals&#8217; Presence Eases Anxiety In Children With ASD\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5,4],"tags":[23,381,10,383,92,26,27,31,16],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autism","category-general-advice","category-parenting","category-tips","tag-aspergers-syndrome","tag-autism","tag-communication","tag-parenting","tag-research","tag-senses","tag-sensory","tag-social-interaction","tag-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2938,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions\/2938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}