Therapeutic horseback riding at Camp Cheerful

This evening Jill and I took Liam and the twins to Camp Cheerful to interview for its Therapeutic horseback riding class. It starts in September and goes for 10 weeks. Each session lasts an hour. Jill found out about this from another parent in Liam’s class.

Camp Cheerful received a donation from a grandparent whose granddaughter had Downs syndrome. The granddaughter apparently loved horses and found horseback riding to be therapeutic. This person donated money to Camp Cheerful to buy horses and put in an indoor and outdoor riding ring. Once Liam and the twins saw the horses they were quite excited.

So come September Liam will be learning to ride a horse. I think this is really exciting for him. I am really interested to learn how this is therapeutic. The counselor talked about all kinds of different sensory and physical way in which this helps children.