Sandra Swimming with Dolphins

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Hello Barbara and Team!

We hope you are all alright and have had such a nice Summer as we did. Some time has passed since we were with you for therapy. It was again a very nice, intense and successful time. Sandra has improved a lot.

Sandra loves the dolphins ( especially Frosia) a lot and she still often speaks of them. Every day she had a lot of fun at the therapy. She was also very proud to be alone in the water with Frosia and to be allowed to give her instructions.

Sandra swims with Dolphin in Kemer

Barbara and Alejandra this time worked intensively on her speech. Read the rest of this entry »

Dolphin Assisted Therapy of Victoria 2011

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Hello my dears,

I went riding with Victoria today, before that we were in a shop at a farm where we bought carrots for Moritz, her horse, and a green cucumber. By the time we arrived home Victoria had eaten the whole cucumber, usually I had to cut it into thin slices for her, but she had simply eaten the whole cucumber.

Dolphin Therapy of Victoria 2011

You do very good work, now I even hear sometimes the “s”. Here are a few more pictures of Victoria. Hearty greetings to everyone from the Lenuweit family. We see Flip daily, as Victoria presses the remote control of the DVD player into our hands every day, and she watches everything, and one can see her “little big head” at work. She has also eaten a whole apple, as if she had never done anything else.

Dolphin Therapy of Victoria 2011

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Eight Year-old Victoria Learns to Walk

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Article by newspaper Sächsische Zeitung [online], 24.09.2011, author: Catharina Karlshaus

The young girl could not stand on her own legs. After two weeks of Dolphin Therapy great progress has been made.

Manuela Lenuweit is a happy woman. Without a doubt. The 47 year-old is tanned, the worried look in her eyes has given way to laughter wrinkles and her demeanour radiates newly-won strength. Manuela Lenuweit is above all a happy mother. The mother of eight year-old Victoria, for whom people in Priestewitz, Großenhain and other towns and villages donated a lot of money.

The Situation was a great burden

A fund-raising campaign mounted by the SZ local editorial office in Großenhain and the Priestewitz community raised over 15.000 Euros. The dolphin therapy in Kemer, Turkey, cost 9450 Euros which the family were unable to pay. „That was a blow for my husband“, said Frau Lenuweit. „He was always working but so much money was not available for our little one. Victoria at the Dolphin Therapy Center in Kemer (Photo: private)The situation was continually a burden for us.“ Since the time this was publicized in the SZ on 5 May the life of the worried parents changed considerably. Victoria has made progress, is more balanced and in August was able to kneel. An event for the parents that was like Easter, Birthday and Christmas all on one day.

Then the time arrived. After all the hope and years of waiting the Lenuweits began packing. On September 2 they flew to Turkey. Along with the luggage were not only Summer clothes and toys but also especially lots of wishes. Looking at Manuela Lenuweit today, one can see that these wishes all came true. „Victoria had surprisingly no problems with settling down. Already on the second day she had adjusted to the routines of the Hotel and Therapy Center“, she said. A strictly organized course that, for the blonde girl who is organically healthy, meant a lot of hard work. In the mornings there was Cranio Sacral therapy – a procedure which involves manual pressure on the skull and sacrum. Read the rest of this entry »

6 Years Dolphin Therapy of Nico Herrmann

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Nico had a lot of luck and was able to take part in dolphin therapy 6 times, a therapy that helped Nico to recuperate from 3 big operations, that helped him to keep in good spirits and enabled him to continue to make progress!

Nico is now a lot more alert, understands instructions and carries them out.

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Dolphin Therapy with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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I wanted to write of my time at the therapy centre in Kemer, and to thank you all again for the wonderful care, and attention, you gave me.

From the very start of my inquiry into Dolphin Therapy, I recieved very compassionate, and detailed, care from Turgay. Within one week of my first email, we had a program made up for me, and I am not exactly a “usual” case for this type of therapy. I sought this therapy for myself, not for a child. I’d heard that Dolphin Therapy could be successful in helping sufferers of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and I was desparate to see if it could help me. Read the rest of this entry »

Dolphin Therapy of Jacqueline

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Sooo, I have unfortunately had no time to write here about the course of the therapy and its successes. Forgive me for this, but other things had to be done first…

This was the state of things BEFOREHAND:
We have a daughter suffering from Epilepsy, she had various treatments at home before the therapy but with little success. She cannot walk, crawl or sit by herself. She waves her hands, waves them so long until she touches something to grasp. Her glance was not fixated. Her eating behaviour is also very bad. She has problems with her posture and sits in a wheel chair.

Then came the two weeks in Mamaris…
The therapists were very nice and Jacqueline was also enthusiastic. Our little one received Physio, Riding and Dolphin Therapy. Physio alternated with Riding therapy in the morning. Dolphin therapy was DAILY! Read the rest of this entry »

WDSF Campaign – Reader’s Letter

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This message reached us after our report on the whale and dolphin protectors. Many thanks to family Schürbusch

First of all I would like to say that I absolutely respect and support reasonable Wildlife Conservation. Every person who puts himself out for another living being deserves acclaim.

I am a mother of a disabled child. My son has retarded development problems and suffers from fits. In the past we were more in hospitals than at home. After more than 30 fits my endurance was at an end. Again and again I saw my child unmoving with his muscles cramped, his face turning blue, for three years I couldn’t leave him for 1 second out of my sight. Then his development slowed and he was not able to do things that other children of his age had long since accomplished. Also to experience that pained my heart. I couldn’t lead a normal life.

At 3 yrs. He couldn’t speak a single word, was not alert to danger and was always falling over. My life was composed only of fear, worry about the future and visits to Therapy.

Dolphin Therapy of family Schürbusch

The visit to Kemer definitely produced the first visible progress. He began to speak, learned to climb stairs on his own and became more open and self-confident. Read the rest of this entry »

Laura Cremer

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Hello Fleur,

I’m sorry that we are so late in writing, no day goes by that we and Laura don’t speak of you.

We and Laura had a very nice time with you. Laura misses Daisy and you, Fleur.In Laura’s room there hangs a big picture of you both and she still sings the Daisy song.

We also met Valerie which was very nice. She now also has pierced ears but Laura wasn’t keen.

Many things have changed since the dolphin therapy,  Laura is a big girl now and I see even bigger changes in her. e.g. She tries more to communicate by speech. The speech therapist says that the tone of her voice has changed. Lately she tries to read lips and repeat the words which is which is very important for Laura. Read the rest of this entry »

In Retrospect – and a few straight words…

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This message reached us after our report on the current events of the animal protectors. Many thanks to family Wunderlich

Dear Barbara – dear Team,

I spent a long time with a blank page before me because I was unsure how to put all my thoughts and feelings into words. So many occurences are worth calling to attention, so today I shall write down a few significant thoughts, of which I now know that they describe one of the most meaningful events in our lives.

Nearly 1 ½ years have gone by. More exactly – 15 months – 64 weeks, since we travelled to you – to Daisy – and we both love to look back to this special and intensive time. Not only the positive, and at the same time mystical, emanations of the dolphins worked small wonders. It was the many little aspects of the therapy that helped my daughter and I to master the challenges in our lives and which helped us to cope with the psychological stress of the past.

Today I would like to relate a small miracle:

Dolphin Therapy for JenniferTo this I must add that my little one at this point in time could not utter a sentence.

…We were at the platform again and Jennifer swam with her therapist Barbara and Daisy. As on previous days, Barbara sang the song: Daisy Daisy dance with me… and always encouraged Jenny to sing along. And all of a sudden my daughter began to sing with her. I couldn’t understand it, because I was too far away to hear my daughter’s voice, and Barbara said to Jennifer: Sing louder. And I stood on the secure platform and heard my child! She sang with Daisy, held her flippers and they swam in a circle and MY CHILD sang loud and clear! No she was yelling!!

„Daisy Daisy dance with me, here are my hands, one time there and back, it’s all so easy.“

The whole song and then once again, and I was standing on the pier and crying. I cried so loud that people started looking. My child, who couldn’t speak, who couldn’t form a sentence, was singing the whole song. I couldn’t understand it. I couldn’t believe it. But it was true.

It was one of the most moving moments in my life. Read the rest of this entry »

Dolphin Therapy report from family Schröder

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Dear Dolphin Therapy Team,

Janik was in Kemer for therapy from 5.6. – 19.6.2010 with his grandparents and was treated by Splash the dolphin and the therapists Fleur, Crissy, Anke, Beata and more whose names escape me.

We, the grandparents, only have Janik during the holidays and when he is ill and has to visit the lung specialist. So we only notice the progress he has made during a fifth of the last half year.

Janik is a lot more confident, doesn’t run away in panic from every animal. A while ago riding on the tandem a cat sprang into his lap. He didn’t shout, he threw up his hands but not defensively or screaming as he used to. He strokes his therapy horse even if it is dirty and he even scratches out the hooves as if it is a matter of course with him. He dares to lead the horse with its reins, he combs his therapy dog at eye level. Read the rest of this entry »