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Since September, we have also been offering a Leadership
Development class that serves neuro-typical children and
children with learning differences who are learning primar-
ily at home this year. This program will start again in early
March of 2021 for 6-8 year olds and 11-13 year olds."
Abigail has many stories of the therapy's instrumental
value in even the toughest cases.
"Last summer," Abigail tells us, "the team provided
equine-assisted therapy for a nine-year-old girl who had
been sexually abused. Her adoptive mother had feared
for her and her son's safety due to her daughter's violent
outbursts. Eventually, the Chinook Horses team and the
mother agreed to augment therapy with small group work
to help her daughter address her violent behaviors at home
and at school. She was able to develop critical social and
communication skills she needed to help her regulate her
emotions and communicate her needs to others. The inter-
vention of equine-assisted therapy resulted in an impactful
change to her behaviors at home, as she learned how to
manage her anger in safer, more appropriate ways with this
supplemental intervention."
Please join us in thanking Chinook Horses and Abigail
for the great work that they are doing—may it continue
to brighten the lives of people, children and adults, who
would most benefit from the experience of a horse's re-
markable and compassionate comprehension.
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