Tuesday 3 July 2012

To Valentina and the students!

Hi dear Valentina! It is always a great surprise to read you...We feel happy when you answer our letters! 
As regards our jackets, we designed them ourselves!!! It was really fun...
We got very interested in your daughter's job...how nice!!! We love horse riding and everything related to horses...they are such intelligent animals.
We would like to tell you that in a city near our twon there is centre for disabled people where they work with horses in order to cope with people's problems. It is so interesting..it's kind of school where they have classes in the morning and in the afternoon they are in contact with horses.

In the following article we will tell you some specific information about it and we'll show you a video!


Therapeutic horseback riding, (also known as equine-assisted activity or adaptive riding) is used to teach riding skills to people with disabilities. Therapeutic riding is beneficial for children and adults who present with any of a wide range of cognitive, physical, and emotional conditions.

A therapeutic riding program is often taught by a nationally-certified instructor. In an equine-assisted activity (EAA) program, a certified or specially-trained riding instructor teaches a person with a disability how to ride a horse. However, working with horses can provide more than just riding skills - participants can also learn companionship, responsibility, confidence, leadership, vocational and educational skills, and may offer competition venues in various riding disciplines.
 Riding a horse provides a unique recreational or leisure activity for many. There are many sports in which the disabled can participate in to enhance their lives and attain social and physical fitness (such as the Special Olympic programs, for people with cognitive disabilities). Hundreds of programs (and many organizations) exist worldwide which are dedicated to horseback riding or horse care in the context of a cognitive or other disability.