The Co-Therapies Interdisciplinary  Association (AICOTE ONLUS) is active for the coordination, realization and diffusion of different co-therapies as supporting means to traditional therapies, with specific reference to Animal-Assisted Activities, Education and Therapy.

In particular Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) refers to an intentional intervention involving a patient, a trained animal as therapist and the human owner or handler with the aim of facilitating the patient success in achieving improvements in physical, social, emotional and cognitive functioning.

Animal therapists are most commonly dogs but can also include rabbits, chinchilla and other small animals. Additional specific AICOTE activities have been adressed in this field towards the use of horses and donkeys as comfort animals.

AICOTE Association cooperates many years with different care and social service structures, with particular reference to schools, hospitals, rehabilitating centers, with the aim of promoting  ability of disabled persons in learning and rehabilitative processes. The staff comprises several specialists well experienced in the specific fields (doctors, psychologists, veterinarians, researchers) and profits also by the work of volunteers.
AICOTE activities have been recently extended also to other co-therapies such as music therapy, art therapy and dance movement therapy.

Staff Aicote