Equine Skills, Level 2
MANDATORY PREREQUISITE COURSE FOR HIPPOTHERAPY TREATMENT PRINCIPLES LEVEL 2 WORKSHOP
NOVEMBER 6-7 2008
Instructors:
Liz Baker, PT, HPCS
Ruth
Dismuke-Blakely, MS/CCC-SLP, HPCS
Instructors:
Liz is a PT whose involvement in hippotherapy began in 1986. In 1987 she studied hippotherapy at the Rommel Klinik in Wildbad, Germany, and is a founding member and past president of the AHA. Liz has taught at many American and international conferences over the past fifteen years; she has been extensively involved with NARHA as a board member, executive vice president, and Health and Education committee chair from 1987--2000. In 2000, Liz was the recipient of NARHA's most prestigious award, The James Brady Professional Achievement Award. Liz has been with Greenlock since its inception in 1989; she also continues to practice at Wrentham Developmental Center. She lives in Wrentham, MA, with her husband Stan, her dog Sophie and cat Maggie, and is still looking for a hobby.
Ruth is a speech/language
pathologist and professional horsewoman involved in hippotherapy since
1978. She owns Skyline Therapy
Services, an outpatient clinic specializing in the transdisciplinary
applications of hippotherapy. Ruth has
published research, presented at numerous conferences and workshops and was a
featured speaker at the Ninth International Therapeutic Riding Congress in
Denver, 1997. She served on the Board
of Directors of the American Hippotherapy Association and is a consultant to
the NARHA Health and Education Committee.
She is regarded as a leader in the field of hippotherapy as a treatment
tool.
Course Description:
·
Level 2 Equine Skills: This
2-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. This
course is open to PT/PTA’s, OT/COTA’s & SLP’s, HPOT Teams, trainers, horse
handlers, barn mangers, and instructors and administrators. This course is a
mandatory course to become a NARHA Registered Instructor.
** THIS COURSE IS
AN AHA MANDATORY PREREQUISITE FOR TAKING LEVEL 2 TREATMENT PRINCIPLES. EQUINE SKILLS LEVEL 2 CANNOT BE WAIVERED. **
a. Participants: Attendance is limited to 4:1 per group with 2 AHA Inc. Faculty per 16 participants. This course is taught by an AHA Inc Coordinating Faculty and an AHA Inc Associate Faculty, AHA Inc Adjunct Faculty or AHA Inc Apprentice Faculty.
b. Prerequisites: Evidence of completion of Level 1 Equine Skills Course and Level 1 Treatment Principles Course.
Level 2 Equine Skills:
This 2-day, hands-on workshop targets
therapists with moderate horse experience in non-mounted equine skills.
Participants must have taken the prerequisite course or, have attained waived
status from Level 1 Equine Skills, before taking this course. Mounted
practicums are available during this course. This course will give
the Therapist and the HPOT Team the training principles needed and how
they are applied in a hippotherapy session to improve your horse and the
efficacy of hippotherapy as a treatment strategy. The curriculum
may be used only under conditions set by AHA Inc.
Course Objectives Include:
Ø Recognize the importance of a common
horsemanship knowledge base for the therapist, horse professional and all
members of the HPOT team.
Ø Identify preferred
conformation and understand the relationship between conformation, movement
quality and soundness for the hippotherapy horse
Ø
Demonstrate the
ability to assess a horse for soundness, regularity and evenness of gait,
straightness and flexibility.
Ø Demonstrate the ability to assess
horse behaviors including those resulting from stress and/or discomfort.
Ø
Identify and convey
to the horse handler the necessary skills required to produce quality movement
when leading, lunging or long lining the HPOT horse.
Ø
Understand training
techniques for a HPOT horse including groundwork, desensitization, and
conditioning.
Ø
Understand the
principles of good nutrition, veterinary and worming protocols for horses in a
HPOT program.
Ø
Understand the
importance of and be able to identify handling and riding skills that are
necessary to maintain and/or improve the HPOT horse.
Ø
Create and understand
the importance of having a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly schedule for the
hippotherapy horse.
Ø
Understand the need
to educate and train staff and/or volunteers who will be working with the HPOT
horse, either in HPOT sessions or involved with the daily care and training
routines, the handling techniques and training protocols to maintain a safe,
effective, and successful HPOT program.
Ø Identify lameness and illness in
the hippotherapy horse and explain appropriate prevention through
veterinary, farrier and nutritional care, and training protocols.
Course Specifics:
The workshop begins on Thursday,
November 6, 2008 and runs through Friday, November 7, 2008. Certificates of attendance will be given to
participants who attend the ENTIRE workshop.
ENROLLMENT IS LIMITED TO 15 PARTICIPANTS.
Tuition:
$350.00 per person fee includes instruction, an extensive notebook of course materials and daily lunch and must be received by October 1, 2008. Fees will be refunded (less $100.00 processing and cancellation fee) for cancellations made prior to October 1, 2008. No refund will be allowed for cancellations made after October 1, 2008.
Accommodations: (Seekonk, MA)
Johnson
& Wales Inn, 213 Taunton Avenue, 508-336-8700 (Closest proximity to GTRC)
Ramada
Inn, 940 Fall River Avenue, 508-336-7300
Hampton
Inn, 1105 Fall River Avenue, 508-336-9000
Bed & Breakfast Lodging: (Rehoboth, MA)
Gilberts
B&B, 30 Spring Street, 508-252-6416
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Bridge Farm, 154 Pine Street, 508-252-3190
Perryville Inn, 157 Perryville
Road, 508-252-9239