Youth Programs - Individual Skills Development

Uniquely designed equine-assisted program to develop customized learning experiences that focus on enhancing specific skills in participants with special needs.

Participants that work through this program not only learn about themself while learning how to develop a relationship with their horse but learn about their other team members. Some have even profited from the natural value of therapeutic benefits. Hippotherapy (using equine movement as a treatment strategy for people living with disabilities) has shown to improve muscle tone, balance, posture, coordination, motor development as well as emotional well-being. Whereas we do not employ or claim to be a physical or speech therapist, a number of individuals with special needs currently participating in these programs have exhibited notable improvement in the above described areas. Their own teachers from the Prince Albert School District along with Cartier Equine Center's equine specialists have noted personal observations of numerous instances of communication (articulation) improvement, hand/eye coordination, expansion of emotional expression, balance and mobility.