Its time for San Diego Hippotherapys Spring Hay Haul! We had a dry, dry winter, and hay prices are bound to rise again. With your support, we would like to have a nice stockpile of hay for our amazing therapy horses before that happens. With the help of our friends, we will be able to keep providing hippotherapy and therapeutic riding services for clients like 6-year-old Sammie. Sammie has physical and cognitive disabilities; one complication being she has tactile sensitivity and does not like to maintain a grip on objects. Sammies parents were told she would not ever gain any significant independence, yet last week in her hippotherapy session, she led her mom over to therapy pony Brandy, and reached out BOTH HANDS in the correct spots to take Brandy for a walk! She held the rope in both hands for over 3 minutes, at which point we had to take the rope from her, and then, after her session, did the same thing leading Brandy back from the far end of the arena. In therapy terms, there were so many things involved - sequencing, task planning, memory, task initiation, gross motor for walking, bilateral integration, functional maintenance of grasp... I could go on and on with that list, but the main thing is, she was so proud of herself, and we were so proud of her!!! Please help us to continue to make these miracles happen. Even the smallest donations add up, and all donations are tax-deductible. The direct link to our paypal is https://facebook/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpaypal%2Fcgi-bin%2Fwebscr%3Fcmd%3D_s-xclick%26hosted_button_id%3DXDMZ3BPLEHW7J&h=bAQE4Wy1x Thank you for your support!
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:54:47 +0000
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