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If you are looking only for summer therapy options please click on this link: Summer Therapy Options
A Special Olympics Grand Champion !
Photo Credit: Carolyn Ewles, 2008 All rights reserved
TR: A Tremendous Confidence Builder!
Photo Credit: Carol Rae Hansen, 2008 All rights reserved
OUR PRICING AND SCHOLARSHIPS
You will find our price structure surprisingly affordable: All Pre-Riding or Pre-Driving classes are $50.00 a lesson for 30 minutes in an eight week series of lessons. The twelve week regular series of lessons is $80.00 for a Regular Riding lesson that averages one and a half hours, fully supervised by a certified instructor and qualified volunteers.We provide two to three times as much private contact time for roughly the same cost as other programs. (For example, one local non-accredited program charges $60 for 30 minutes, and another NARHA member Charges $75 for 30 minutes). Scholarships are available, and are based on a family’s ability to pay. Please send a request for an application form to ETA along with a check, payable to ETA, for $25.00. Contact director@equinetherapyassociates.com.
ETA is a unique NARHA program that designs an individualized cognitive enrichment program for each client, each quarter of the year, using two to seven books that match the student's academic level. ETA also gives each student their own daily exercise program for use at home, which builds strength, flexibility, and endurance, as well as safety on their horse or pony! We believe that sequencing, gross and fine motor skills, as well as cognitive and emotional development can be enhanced by regular practice in grooming and tacking the horse. ALL lessons involve practicing these skills. Some lessons will involve less preparation time if the horse/pony was used for another lesson immediately before, but the rider will still untack and groom the animal after the ride.
Instruction is enhanced by lessons in stable management, anatomy, horse
psychology, games, take-home puzzles, work sheets, and vocabulary lists.
All instruction is prefaced by an individualized assessment, the signature
of forms required by NAHRA, release forms, an assessment by the rider’s
personal physician (if he/she has mental or physical challenges), consultation
with other therapists, and measurement for safety devices.
Financial aid (reduced price lessons) is available. This applies to those
with or without special needs.
ETA also offers tailor-made specialty programs for schools, families, and or institutions of a shorter or longer duration that our regular programming, as well as classes that are more or less intensive, specially arranged with the Director.
Registration is simple. There is a $30.00 registration fee per student per quarter, payable with your tuition. (Some individuals may request an initial evaluation, if they or if our staff are unsure as to whether or not therapeutic riding is indicated. This costs $100.00 and takes about two hours.) Instruction is offered in a series of eight, ten, and 12 lessons, prepaid in advance. Annual scholarships are available, and usually require a week to process. The processing fee is $25.00 payable to ETA, payment must be submitted when the forms are mailed. Quarterly scholarships are available and are processed daily through ETA with the same documents and with the same fee of $25.00. A materials fee of $35.00 allows our staff to purchase a variety of instructive materials tailored to the client’s cognitive level, as well as puzzles, poems, and illustrations. For those applying late, refunds are given to successful scholarship applicants, such that fees are reduced retroactively based on the family’s ability to pay, as low as $45 per lesson. A lesson series is pre-paid and allows up to two make-ups, (scheduled at mutually convenient times).
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