Therapeutic Riding
Welcome to the Special Troopers Adaptive Riding School of Sioux City – an organization “Reaching Beyond the Ordinary” to change people’s lives every day. Therapeutic Riding is the core of the S.T.A.R.S. Through the power of human/animal connection, we
Killee enjoys a quiet moment with her horse, Molly
forever change the way people experience the world.
What is Therapeutic Riding?
Therapeutic riding utilizes the horse to help individuals of all ages who experience physical, cognitive, emotional, behavioral, or social challenges. Therapeutic Riding and animal-assisted programs provide a significant, cost-efficient, and highly effective form of physical, learning, and development therapy. Through structured activities, therapeutic riding utilizes the horse to evoke response from the human client while providing the ideal kinetic, tactile environment for powerful, transformative situations that nearly everyone – despite age or ability – can fully experience.
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Hi there! I’ve written a song about therapeutic riding based on kids and horses I observed when I was coming back to riding from a brain injury. (It’s now out on a new CD of mine of all horse songs). I want to get the song up on YouTube and would love to use the photo above of Killee and Molly in it. You can read the lyrics here
http://marielynnhammond.com/pages/lyrics/two-old-white-horses-lyrics/emily-flies/ Please let me know if I can use the photo and if you can send a bigger file. I’ll credit you. Thanks so much!