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SHHRC provides a diversified equine-assisted program. SHHRC offers therapeutic riding, therapeutic driving, hippotherapy, vaulting, an integrated day camp and school and vocational programming. |
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Programs at SHHRC |
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For more information about this service: |
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Email: SHHRCPD@earthlink.net |
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Therapeutic Riding |
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For more information about this service: |
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Email: Equitherapy@gmail.com |
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Hippotherapy |
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As a complement to our year-round programs, each summer SHHRC holds Camp Cold Brook, an integrated day camp program for both children with disabilities and able-bodied children. The camp has attained full approval as a youth camp from both state and county health departments. In addition to daily riding lessons and learning horsemanship skills, campers participate in games, crafts, and other equine activities. |
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Camp Cold Brook |
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Therapeutic driving can offer students with physical, mental, sensory, or emotional conditions the rewards of interaction with and control of a horse or pony while driving from a carriage. |
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Therapeutic driving |
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Vaulting |
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Equine Assisted Psychotherapy |
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Vaulting is an interactive group session where participants learn gymnastics, games and social problem solving around and on the horse. |
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You Are Invited to Experience and Learn about Equine Assisted Psychotherapy
Open House Friday September 12th, 2008 Somerset Hills Handicapped Riding Center Please RSVP by phone or email. |
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meeting the challenges presented by riding and achieving goals while striving to accomplish riding independently. |
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Therapeutic riding is a recreational program designed to provide beneficial physical activity and emotional benefit through learning and applying horsemanship skills. Riders develop improved balance, stamina and coordination. The emotional or psychological benefits are primarily the result of |
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Hippotherapy is the fastest growing program at SHHRC. Hippotherapy is a treatment tool whereby a licensed occupational, physical, or speech therapist uses a horse in |
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sessions to help achieve a client’s goals and objectives. Licensed therapists of each discipline are cross-trained in the movement and behavior of the horse and in the application of the horses’ movement as an innovative tool in therapy. The three dimensional, rhythmic movement achieved while a client sits astride a horse is unique and facilitates improvements in motor, sensory and cognitive domains. The sensory input that a client is challenged with during a hippotherapy session cannot be reproduced in traditional clinic settings, making the horse a valuable part of rehabilitative treatment. |
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“The Epona Project”
Empowering Adolescent Girls to Discover their Path, Strength and Intuition through Equine Therapy |
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Email: Jschaefferb@optonline.net |
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EAP (equine assisted psychotherapy) incorporates horses experientially for emotional growth and learning. The participants learn about themselves and others by participating in challenging activities with the horses and then processing or discussing the feelings, behaviors and patterns they observed in peer discussion. |
