TEACHING TIP: Talk to your volunteers THROUGH your student!
What’s one of my top tips for working with non-verbal, limited verbal, or under responsive students: Don’t leave students out of the plan! Focus your…
Category: Supporting Students
Considerations & Best Practice: Gait belt use in adaptive/therapeutic riding lessons
This post was prompted by a true/false question posted on the Hoof Falls & Footfalls Facebook page and the resulting answers, comments, and discussions. A…
True or False: A student who has extreme difficulties with sensory processing and cannot tolerate a helmet can still ride in an adaptive/therapeutic riding lesson as long as they have a full team
Original prompt posted on the Hoof Falls & Footfalls Facebook page: Original prompt posted on the Hoof Falls & Footfalls Facebook page: True or False:…
Supporting Riders with Visual Impairments- Quick, easy, and cheap adaptation of a mounting block
Necessity is the mother of invention. As instructors we often have to adapt on the fly to make things work the best they can for…
Considerations & Use of the THIGH HOLD
One common “hold” seen in adaptive/therapeutic riding lessons is the “THIGH HOLD”. This hold may also be seen in physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech…
10 Ways to Utilize Volunteers
Below are some examples of different ways you can utilize volunteers during adaptive/therapeutic riding lessons, groundwork, Equine Assisted Learning, or other Equine Assisted Services Sidewalker…