News: Horses with "HART" Provide Riding Therapy

Kids with autism and Asperger syndrome flourish on the horses at Horse and Riding Therapy (HART) in Bell County, Texas. Parents and instructors have seen the children increase their motor skills, confidence, and communication as they work with the horses. Hippotherapy, intervention using the motion of a horse, allows riders to feel their own movements mimic the horse's gait. As John Gough, owner of HART says, "He's [child] is using muscles he doesn't even know he has."

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