Ivy Hill Foundation Inc

Offer therapeutic riding lessons for individuals with cognitive, physical, or emotional disabilities to help students gain confidence by mastering riding skills through forming a partnership with the horse. Cognitive benefits can include sequencing, hand-eye coordination, multi- tasking, sensory integration, left/right discrimination, motor planning, patterning, and visual/spatial perception. Physical benefits can include greater strength and agility, improved balance and posture, improved weight-bearing ability, improved circulation, respiration, and metabolism, normalizing of muscle tone, reduced spacisity, improved fine and gross motor skills, improved coordination, improved reflexes, and increased range of motion.