Safety
The equipment needed to be checked every day for broken pieces and cracked leather
What is tack?
Should be done minimally between side-walkers during a lesson
What is talking?
Condition that often presents itself in repetitive behaviors, difficulty with communication and social behaviors and obsessive interests.
What is Autism?
Your head position when moving a horse forward.
What is Looking up?
Program designed to help this population build community, trust and emotional awareness.
What is Veterans program?
Could get stuck on tack or pulled by child/horse. Refrain from wearing.
What is Jewelry?
The time you should wait to give a prompt after the initial instruction was given.
What is 5 seconds?
Condition that could present stiff, weak muscles, lack of coordination, overactive reflexes and involuntary movements.
What is Cerebral Palsy?
What you should do when you hear your Side walker say "Nice 'whoa' Nicholas!" but Stella does not stop.
What is: tell Stella to stop?
A program designed to help people with physical or cognitive disabilities practice independence.
What is Therapeutic Riding?
Weather condition that should result in riders dismounting if it occurs within 8 miles of the arena.
What is Lightning?
During a lesson, rather than talk ABOUT the rider, we communicate all things in this manner.
What is talking TO the rider?
Neglect, Abuse or abandonment as an infant has led to trouble maintaining appropriate relationships, hypervigilance and poor emotional regulation.
What is developmental Trauma?
A sign that one horse does not want another horse to pass.
What is pinning ears or swinging hindquarters?
A program for individuals who can ride in a typical manner that are still developing the basic riding skills.
What is Beginner Horse Lessons?
A condition of the barn that involves putting things away that could be tripped over or feet caught in.
What is clear barn isles?
The position that your rider should have at all times in order to stay balanced, engage core and ride effectively.
What is Centered?
A condition that results in low muscle tone, Short fingers and small hands. Often has a speech delay and trouble with short or long term memory.
What is Down Syndrome?
Stretch front and hind legs, walk all the way around the arena, check girth, adjust stirrups, establish horses' attending.
What are things to do before lesson starts?
A ground program that builds a relationship with a horse in order to practice self-regulation, goal setting and communication.
What is Equine Assisted Learning?
Action that is done following opening a gate.
What is close the gate?
Every rider's goal to the best of their ability.
What is independence?
Condition that causes problems with information processing. Is often simultaneously present with other disorders.
What is a learning disorder?
The speed and direction you should take the horse if it will not stop in the event of an emergency dismount.
What is walk straight?
The best place to see instructors, take rectal temperatures, get water dumped on their head, gallop around like a horse and do ridiculous dances they would never do outside this program.
What is Day Camp?