Dog-Assisted Therapy for Children and Adolescents With FASD

The rationale of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of Dog Assisted Therapy in children and adolescents with FASD. The investigators conducted a randomized, rater‐blinded, controlled pilot trial in a cohort of 33 children and adolescents with FASD. Participants were randomly assigned either to DAT group (n=17) or Treatment as Usual (TAU control group) (n=16). The investigators evaluated changes on social skills, internalized and externalized symptomatology and on severity of FASD symptoms at pre‐treatment and post‐treatment.