Horses can Help

Available Courses

• Autism for Riding Instructors

  • Administrator: gina taylor

  This is a three week online course that covers assessment, instruction and special considerations for teaching riding skills to students with autism. This course provides power point handouts, video examples, worksheets and a certificate of completion. This course is able to be completed at your own pace during the three weeks and is presented by Gina Taylor, MS, OT, HPCS
• Assessment for Riders with Autism

  • Administrator: gina taylor

  This course covers basic assessment of participants with Autism for participation in a therapeutic riding program. This course includes power point presentation, videos, worksheets and access to course instructor. Enroll and learn at your own pace! Course materials will be available to you for 14days.
• Instruction for Riders with Autism

  • Administrator: gina taylor

  This course covers techniques for instruction of participants with Autism in therapeutic riding programs. This course includes power point presentation, videos, worksheets and access to course instructor. Enroll and learn at your own pace! Course materials will be available to you for 14days.
• Special considerations for Riders with Autism

  • Administrator: gina taylor

  This course covers special considerations for participants with Autism in a therapeutic riding program. Special considerations include sensory processing differences, understanding perseveration, behavior management to deal with tantrums and meltdowns and accessing social interaction with your riders. This course includes power point presentation, videos, worksheets and access to course instructor. Enroll and learn at your own pace! Course materials will be available to you for 14days.
• Hippotherapy Mentoring Circle

  • Administrator: gina taylor

    

  This hippotherapy mentoring circle is a novel attempt at connecting professionals working in a variety of settings that incorporate hippotherapy into their practice. This introductory meeting will focus utilize a discussion board and up to 90minute guided chat. The intended audience is therapists interested in developing their intervention skills and clinical reasoning related to hippotherapy and equine assisted therapy. The facilitator will assist the circle members in utilizing their combined energies and experiences to help one another go beyond what any member knows or contributes as an individual. The benefit of mentoring circles is that they generate many different perspectives rather than a single point of view.
  
  Topics for discussion during the guided chat may be posted on the discussion forum prior to 7pm EST on December 20th, 2010. Videos of treatment sessions for review may be shared via facebook (Horses Can Help) or YouTube.
  
  This introductory meeting and chat will be FREE.