New Group for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
WARRINGTON, Pa., Feb. 26 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Special Equestrians is proud to announce the launch of a new program for children diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum. “We successfully completed a pilot of this program and were so pleased with the results that we are opening the group to our currently enrolled riders.” Deb Saffern, one of the Occupational Therapists who works at Special Equestrians attributes the groups success to “the social interaction between the children, the one-on-one attention each child receives, along with the repetition of activities, and the variety of activities.”
The multi-sensory components of this group include therapeutic horseback riding, life skills exercises, communication games, use of our sensory trail, and writing with the Handwriting without Tears(R) method.
Anne Reynolds, Program Director offered her observation on the programs success: “Each lesson plan has the ability to complement the fundamental work we already do with riders on the autism spectrum. [...]
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