Endeavor Therapeutic Horsemanship Finds New Home in Bedford
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Endeavor doesn’t exclude siblings who don’t have disabilities from joining in the fun therapy program. Board member Caroline Black has signed up her two sons—14-year-old Will, who is diagnosed with ADHD, low muscle tone, and global developmental delays, and 8-year-old Luke—for sessions together. She says that the sessions have helped her sons grow closer as siblings.
“It’s an activity that kids can do together; horses don’t judge,” Berg says.
While Marny Mansfield, program director, is the only occupational therapist on staff, all instructors provide hippotherapy and are certified by the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International. Mansfield was also the PATH International instructor of the year in 2014, and is a PATH International master instructor.
Forty-five-minute group riding and 30-minute private riding cost $60 per session. Thirty-minute private hippotherapy riding costs $80 per session.
Above photo: Will Black, 14, who is diagnosed with ADHD and low muscle tone, works with volunteer Sharon Ricketts and Frida the pony at Endeavor Therapeutic Horsemanship.
Photo by Bill Black
