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Clinic Dates 2012:• June 18 - June 22 Therapeutic Driving Instructor Clinic, Corinth, TX
• July 16 - July 20, Corinth, TX
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•Spring 2012: Start Sun, March 11, end May 17
Sep 2011
News:Drought Pushes Therapeutic Riding Center to Limit - NBCDFW.com
10TH ANNUAL FIESTA! Saturday, June 2nd 4:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M. Click here for more information and to purchase tickets. |
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SpiritHorse Trains People Without Disabilities! SpiritHorse International congratulates Charles Fletcher (Mr. Charles) its founder and chief executive officer upon winning the 2011 Governor's Lonestar Achievement Award, "for those rare individuals who dream the impossible and make it a reality". |
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Our Mission:
To Assist Individuals with Special Needs in Reaching their Full
Potential through Interaction with Horses
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We are unique in that SpiritHorse International; together with its 65 licensed centers is the only center in America that provides all private therapeutic horseback riding services free to people with disabilities, children who are victims of abuse, battered women, children who are terminally ill, at-risk-youth, and wounded US Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in our "SpiritHorse for Heroes" program.
We currently serve over 400 children and adults FREE OF CHARGE at our Corinth, Texas facilities each week, and we have 110 children on our waiting list. We serve another 3,500 at our 65 centers worldwide, more than any organization in the world. Three hundred of these children have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. We operate seven days each week, twelve hours each day.
In ten years of operation, as the result of our research and development and the faithful application of our methods by our certified instructors, we have heard 86 children speak the first word of their lives, helped 55 children walk their first steps to reach their ponies, and seen 44 children sit up for the first time. A study by a leading medical school recently published in the peer-reviewed Journal for Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine showed that we moved 24 severely autistic children to mild autism and one to non-autistic in just six months of intervention with our research-based, award-winning methods.
The statistical analysis of the blinded measurements rated the improvement as "Significant". The study was also published by the National Institutes of Health in their review PubMed in January 2012. The study has been published in 10 other publications that provide the latest news of intervention with autism. We believe this to be the first study of intervention in autism with blinded measurements and statistical analysis. Other studies have been found to be based upon anecdotal information.
A study by Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, soon to be published in a European peer-reviewed medical journal showed identical statistical results and of 47 children who measured on the autism spectrum, 9 children measured in blinded Childhood Autism Rating Scale measurements as “Non-Autistic”.
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Our most immediate need is raising money to sustain our free programs. You can make a difference by making a donation now through any of our giving programs. All grandparents, aunts, uncles, relatives and friends, please give for the children you love.
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