Enabling Independence through Acquired Life Skills
21 developmentally delayed students at Anne Hathaway Public School are going horseback riding Friday, June 25, 2010 thanks to the Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation. In partnership with the AIA High Fives for Kids Foundation the SPCCF provided funds for a project called ‘Enabling Independence through Acquired Life Skills.’ This project will enhance the school’s life-skills focused curriculum by allowing our students to go therapeutic horseback riding. 
As a result of the generosity of the Community Foundation the students at Anne Hathaway Public School are traveling to Kitchener, Ontario to participate in the therapeutic riding program offered at Pride Stables/ Central Ontario Developmental Riding Program (CODRP). This stable offers therapeutic riding lessons to adults and children with disabilities.
“The benefits of horse back riding are multidimensional. The instruction of lessons is based on sequencing, which enables each rider to learn at their own pace. Therapeutic horseback riding uses the horse as a medium of therapy. The combination of the horse's movement, which simulates the human walking motion, and its higher body temperature, serves to supply passive heat massage to the riders' muscles, thereby either relaxing spastic muscles or stimulating lax muscles. Riders also participate in exercises improving their muscle strength and flexibility in their upper body.” (Central Ontario Developmental Riding Program). The Community Foundation's support will allow the students from Anne Hathaway Public School to experience the benefits of therapeutic horseback riding, an experience that some of them have never had before.
For further information please contact:
Kim Embury
SCC-DD Classroom Teacher
Anne Hathaway Public School
519-271-8576
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