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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 3296287" data-attributes="member: 5171"><p>The only experience I've had with it is second-or-third-hand -- the nonprofit I used to work for did Hippotherapy (ha, ha, yes, it's extremely funny. Please keep reading once you've finished the jokes), which is definied as Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, or Speech & Language Pathology using the horse as part of the training regimen.</p><p></p><p>(In PT or OT, it's pretty simple -- riding on a horse provides the same visual motion as walking, but is much easier from a balance perspective, so a lot of stroke victims who can't walk because (to dumb it down enough that I understand it) "the steady-cam in their head no longer works" can re-learn to walk by riding. So you have a lot of therapy involving kids or adults on horseback doing slow rides around an arena while doing motor-skill work like shape sorters or mimicking movements.)</p><p></p><p>I'd heard of using Hippotherapy as an SLP tool as well, partly because the movement of the horse gets the patient to "stop thinking and talk" in cases where the brain is sort of working against itself, and partly because a lot of kids who won't talk to adults will say "Hello horsey" to the horse. (And on the days when I was ticked off about stuffing envelopes and making copies, hearing a kid who doesn't otherwise ever say ANYTHING say that to the horse was a pretty good reminder of why I was doing what I was doing.)</p><p></p><p>Sorry I don't have anything more direct than that. Why do you ask?</p><p></p><p>(Oh, and from ASL classes -- if you're dealing with a friend or family member with this, the most important thing is that they learn to be communicating somehow. Someone who communicates one way can learn to communicate another way. Someone pushed to only use words when they don't have any other form of communication gets frustrated really really fast. (As I recall, the suicide rates for deaf U.S. teens who lip-read was huge compared to the suicide rates for deaf teens who signed.))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takyris, post: 3296287, member: 5171"] The only experience I've had with it is second-or-third-hand -- the nonprofit I used to work for did Hippotherapy (ha, ha, yes, it's extremely funny. Please keep reading once you've finished the jokes), which is definied as Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, or Speech & Language Pathology using the horse as part of the training regimen. (In PT or OT, it's pretty simple -- riding on a horse provides the same visual motion as walking, but is much easier from a balance perspective, so a lot of stroke victims who can't walk because (to dumb it down enough that I understand it) "the steady-cam in their head no longer works" can re-learn to walk by riding. So you have a lot of therapy involving kids or adults on horseback doing slow rides around an arena while doing motor-skill work like shape sorters or mimicking movements.) I'd heard of using Hippotherapy as an SLP tool as well, partly because the movement of the horse gets the patient to "stop thinking and talk" in cases where the brain is sort of working against itself, and partly because a lot of kids who won't talk to adults will say "Hello horsey" to the horse. (And on the days when I was ticked off about stuffing envelopes and making copies, hearing a kid who doesn't otherwise ever say ANYTHING say that to the horse was a pretty good reminder of why I was doing what I was doing.) Sorry I don't have anything more direct than that. Why do you ask? (Oh, and from ASL classes -- if you're dealing with a friend or family member with this, the most important thing is that they learn to be communicating somehow. Someone who communicates one way can learn to communicate another way. Someone pushed to only use words when they don't have any other form of communication gets frustrated really really fast. (As I recall, the suicide rates for deaf U.S. teens who lip-read was huge compared to the suicide rates for deaf teens who signed.)) [/QUOTE]
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