Equine Facilitated
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Grace has over 20 years experience as a Speech & Language Therapist and is passionate about bringing equine facilitated human development and learning to people with language difficulties.
Equine Facilitated Speech and Language Therapy provides interventions for adults including treatments for:
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"Working with horses
helps people with voice difficulties redefine themselves." |
Grace will often set goals for the client to complete, such as leading the horse, putting a halter on the horse, or just standing and looking at the horses. The client will complete the task to the best of their ability and then discuss the thought process, ideas and problem solving they used to complete the task. This discussion allows them to practice their language skills. Not only is there communication between the client and Grace, but between the horse and the client. Working alongside horses provides these benefits without giving the individual a feeling that they are in therapy. Since horses give immediate feedback to people’s actions as well as having the ability to mirror their feelings, they are perfectly placed to help people overcome feelings of distress, lack of confidence, high levels of anxiety or frustration. Following assessment, therapy either takes place in the office and/or out in the arena or fields with the horses. Goals for therapy are discussed with each client and the process for achieving them are individualized, frequently using a mixture of more traditional approaches and work with the horses. ASLTIP Association of Speech and Language Therapists |
"Horses lend us the wings we lack" Unknown