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Enrollment

Click the button below to download our enrollment form and questionnaire. Please complete form and send to the address on the form.
Rider Questionnaire
Rider Enrollment Form

Who Can Ride

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Buckaroos (Ages 3-8) Classes emphasize confidence, communication & basic horsemanship skills
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Greater Strides (Ages 3-8) Focus: confidence, communication & basic horsemanship skills
(Specialized lessons for children with disabilities)

Trail Blazers (Ages 9-18) Focus: team work, accountability, communication & advanced horsemanship skills

Making Strides: Specialized lessons for adults with disabilities

Equine Experience for the Elderly Recreational and/or focus on building strength & balance. 

Why Choose Therapeutic Riding?

People with problems or deficits in the areas noted below commonly participate in and benefit from therapeutic riding. 

Academic

  • Attention
  • Concentration
  • Behaviors/self-regulation
  • Multiple step tasks/directions
  • Processing, organization, memory
  • Handwriting/use of classroom tools
  • Communication

Gross Motor Skills

  • Postural strengthening
  • Positioning
  • Gait/ambulation/mobility
  • Balance
  • Learn to turn and guide the horse
  • Righting/protective reactions
  • Coordination
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Fine Motor Skills

  • Writing, tracing, copying
  • Purposeful grasp and reach
  • Coordination
  • Use of affected extremities
  • Self-care/ ADL's
  • Manipulation/dexterity

Psychosocial Skills

  • Self-esteem
  • Coping skills/strategies
  • Social interaction
  • Concepts of right/wrong
  • Appropriate behaviors
  • Calming/de-stressing skills
  • Purposeful/meaningful activities
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What is Therapeutic Riding?

Therapeutic Riding uses equine-assisted activities for the purpose of contributing positively to cognitive, physical, emotional and social  well-being of people with disabilities. Therapeutic riding provides benefits in the areas of therapy, education, recreation and leisure.

Therapeutic riding has changed and evolved over the years since the lead organization NARHA (North American Riding for the Handicapped) was founded in 1969. The organization has recently been renamed Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International (PATH-Intl.) to better represent the industry and the numerous disciplines and equine assisted activities and therapies offered by centers.

ITRP is a certified PATH-Intl. facility.  
 
Our certified and compassionate instructors work to help riders with physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy, down syndrome, multiple sclerosis, paralysis, stroke and traumatic brain injury.  ITRP also works with those who have other disabilities  such as autism, attention deficit disorder, anxiety and depression.  We also have targeted programs to help youth at risk and the elderly.  
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