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Welcome
Thanks for visiting SunnyBrook Meadows Therapeutic Riding, where we are building better lives and brighter futures by providing a sense of worth and accomplishment to adults and children with special needs.
More About Our Program
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SunnyBrook Meadows Therapeutic Riding is a Christ centered organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with disabilities through therapeutic horseback riding and other related activities.
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Benefits
Therapeutic horseback riding reaches out to children and adults in the community with special needs by providing a program that is not only beneficial but enjoyable.
Children and adults with disabilities can benefit physically, mentally and emotionally from horseback riding. It has been proven that horseback riding:
• strengthens weak muscles,
• helps to improve self-esteem, balance and coordination,
• and develops self-awareness.
In addition, the sensory input to a person through the horse is similar to the human gait. The horse’s movement activates the rider’s pelvis, trunk, and spine, simulating normal walking in a repetitive rhythmic motion.
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Our Clients
SunnyBrook Meadows serves a variety of individuals of all ages with all kinds of special needs such as:
• Speech/Language Delayed | • Attention Deficit Disorder |
• Cerebral Palsy | • Mental Retardation |
• Parkinson’s Disease | • Autism |
• Learning Disabled | • Multiple Sclerosis |
• Developmentally Delayed | • Hyperactivity |
• Paraplegic | • Amputee |
• CVA/Stroke | • Head Trauma Injuries |
• Hearing and Vision Impaired | • Muscular Dystrophy |
• Down and Williams Syndromes | • Spina Bifida |
We are currently serving 100 separate riders:
• 40% are clients with Mental Retardation
• 20% are diagnosed with Autism
• 11% represent the Cerebral Palsy population
• The remaining 29% come from a variety of diagnoses