Kids with Autism Make Strides with Equestrian Help

HorsePower! Therapeutic Riding Program helps kids with autism improve their physical, emotional, and behavioral issues. This Olympia, WA therapeutic horseback riding facility will begin offering regular beginning riding lessons this summer.

"The horses respond to what's right about them [the children] and not what's wrong with them, ... If you go to an office (for therapy) sometimes you can feel like there's something wrong with you. The horse doesn't know any of that, and the horse doesn't care." 

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