Horse Therapy and Troubled Teenagers
Horse therapy can help troubled teenagers. A number of boarding schools offering residential treatment programs use equine therapy.
Horse therapy can help troubled teenagers. A number of boarding schools offering residential treatment programs use equine therapy.
The American Hippotherapy Association (AHA) Inc. is an international organization providing education and promoting equine-assisted therapy.
Equine therapy for the elderly provides a support base from impaired conditions, balance problems, poor posture control or lessened mobility.
Hippotherapy is a form of speech, physical and occupational therapy using the horse’s movement to treat people with mental or physical disabilities.
Can alternative therapy programs, such as equine therapy, benefit children with Asperger’s syndrome and autism?
Caisson Platoon Equine Assisted Programs is an equine therapy for wounded soldiers. Here is a list of the US facilities offering therapeutic riding.
Persons with disabilities are often restricted in their movements and interaction but with therapeutic riding, they learn independence and mobility.
Equestrian therapy for children with disability helps improve skills where dramatic improvements in communication and motor skills occur.
Equine therapy is considered a very successful form of treatment for children with autism. Learn why.