Greenlock Therapeutic

Riding Center, Inc

 

 

 

55 Summer Street

Rehoboth, MA 02769

508-252-5814

 

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Level I Equine Skills
This 1 1/2-day, hands-on course targets therapists with minimal to no horse experience in non-mounted equine skills.  Participants will work with horses in teams of two, with a faculty/student ratio of 1 to 6, allowing an opportunity for demonstration, practice and individualized feedback and instruction.

Level 1 Treatment Principles
(2 ½ days) Course Description: This 2 1/2-day course is designed for entry-level therapists utilizing hippotherapy as a treatment strategy, and those interested in or working with hippotherapy teams.  Graduate physical and occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists may attend this course.  Therapeutic riding instructors and others interested in the principles of Hippotherapy, although they may not provide hippotherapy services, are encouraged to attend this course with the treating therapist on their team.

 

Level 2 Equine Skills

Course Description:  This 1 ½ day curriculum was developed by the American Hippotherapy Association, Inc. The Level ll Equine Skills Course is designed to improve horsemanship knowledge and relate that knowledge to hippotherapy. It is designed to offer standardization in the approach to training and to have a common language when we talk about the horse in hippotherapy. This course applies the training techniques for the HPOT Horse and how they relate to conducting a successful HPOT treatment.

 

Level 2 Treatment Principles

Course Description:  This is a 2 ½ day workshop and was developed by the American Hippotherapy Association, Inc.  The course is designed to provide and facilitate a problem-solving approach with The Conceptual Framework for Hippotherapy, Clinical Reasoning, Motor Learning Principles and Neurodevelopmental facilitation theories as they are applied and relate to the treatment strategy of hippotherapy.

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Registration Form for Equine Skills and Hippotherapy Treatment Courses

Liability Release Form

Equine Skills Level 1 Waiver Form

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Greenlock Therapeutic Riding Center Inc. is a non profit 501-3C organization