{"id":1246,"date":"2010-09-28T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:05:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:05:26","slug":"hippotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1246","title":{"rendered":"Hippotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5031570919\/\" title=\"20100927_27 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20100927_27\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/5031570919_bd4ffce136-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SuperPizzaBoy is doing something new. Hippotherapy, defined in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brighthub.com\/education\/special\/articles\/19121.aspx\">article<\/a> as:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;using the horse as a treatment tool to accomplish therapeutic objectives such as improving balance, strength and motor coordination in providing autism  teaching strategies to develop motor and other skills in students with autism. Unlike therapeutic riding, therapists do not focus on teaching riding skills&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5032360069\/\" title=\"20100927_30 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/5032360069_3eb970a15c-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"20100927_30\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is taking it at the Rogers State University &#8220;Bit by Bit&#8221; program. Read more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsu.edu\/bitbybit\/index.asp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5032358609\/\" title=\"20100927_29 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/5032358609_2ba9aa711a-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100927_29\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night was his third class and the only the first I attended. There were about five kids of varying age in the class. Each child had a horse and was attended to by two to four volunteers. The class was led by a therapist who had the kids do various exercises and maneuvers on their horses.<\/p>\n<p>Let me just say, there were lots of smiles.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a fan of Bit by Bit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5031568925\/\" title=\"20100927_26 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/5031568925_6873b84888-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100927_26\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SuperPizzaBoy is doing something new. Hippotherapy, defined in this article as: &#8220;&#8230;using the horse as a treatment tool to accomplish therapeutic objectives such as improving balance, strength and motor coordination in providing autism teaching strategies to develop motor and other skills in students with autism. Unlike therapeutic riding, therapists do not focus on teaching riding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[515,313],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aspergers-syndrome","category-superpizzaboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}