Equitherapy assists with optimal sensory integration, concentration, learning disabilities, low muscle tone, ADHD as well as special needs.
Equi-therapy (also termed hippotherapy) is the use of horses and ponies to help children learn optimally by adding movement and gravity, while developing sensory-motor skills. In other words, movement and gravity develop gross motor, fine motor and perceptual motor skills. It also develops the child’s ability to conceive, plan and execute what to do.
Research conducted by Jane Ayres’, Howard Gardiner, Eric Jensen, Howard Pearce, Carla Hannaford and many more world renowned experts found that most learning disabilities are caused by sensory integration problems.
Apart from assisting the child to interpret sensory stimuli correctly, equi-therapy also helps treat a variety of physical and psychological problems. These include, amongst other, Autism, Asperger Syndrome, development delay, Down Syndrome, emotional disabilities, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease, amputation and brain injury.
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