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27/05/2024

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What are HorseSkills4LIFE?

HorseSkills4LIFE has been around since 1971. H4L is for traditional riding students, and adaptive participants, alike.

As a professional riding Instructor and early pioneer of Equine Assisted Activities and Therapy, I combined traditional riding principles with the adaptive communication and riding techniques I learned at the Riding School for The Disabled, Chigwell, England and applied them as Head E.A.A.T. Instructor and Home Skills coach for The Questover School, a live-in facility for at risk youth with special needs. As one of the Certified E.A.A.T. Instructors from the R.D.A., integrating innovative horse coaching skills with adaptive riding tools, easily transferred into home and life skills. This technique proved effective, fun and successful!

Over the years I continued to teach all students with basically the same techniques and communication building blocks. Many found their riding skills evolved at a faster rate. Adaptive riding participants progressed with improved motor skills and were able to apply lessons learned on a horse in other settings.

In 2001, after many years of coaching traditional riding students and program participants with special needs, I took time off teaching and focused on establishing ‘The LIFEHORSE Research Project.’ Many programs and research initiatives, at the time, were studying humans, seeking to uncover why and how horses proved beneficial to us. However, I believed the real answer would be found studying horses first, how equines evolved and developed, and compare our horse/human similarities and differences. In that research field of ‘language between the lines’ was where I would uncover new and valuable information. With a new and better understanding of horses, I could apply this knowledge to protocols we could use to enhance existing equestrian teaching methods, adaptive and traditional alike.

HorseSkills4LIFE take horse keeping and riding skills and transfer them as teaching tools that can be used in educational, academic, home and social settings. Lessons, Courses and Handbooks guide and enhance adaptive equestrian participants learning the art of riding and also transfer horse skills into life skills, such as letter recognition, learning to spell, write, speak, self-calming techniques, follow instructions, better balance and mobility, trauma resolution, and others.

H4L is not meant to take the place of current instructors methods or compete with Equine Assisted Activities and Therapy certification courses and organizations, such as PATH,Intl., CHA and others. H4L supports these programs. H4L Programs are integrative communication, motor skills, academic and home skill tool guides enhancing program curricula and riding student participant’s abilities. H4L Courses address program, participant and other’s needs, offering a cohesive educational and equestrian opportunity.

In addition to continuing The LIFEHORSE Research Project studies,and applying traditional equestrian horse skills in our H4L lessons, courses and handbooks, we are in the process of creating an Adaptive Polo Skill program. H4L also seeks to establish teams for at risk youth, special needs and Veterans in the future.

Our programs are in the process of applying for 501 (c) 3 status. Donations are now being accepted to fund this research, operational expenses and program development. Your donation will be tax deductible on your 2019 tax returns.

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