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Chatterbox and her
whole family say "Hi!"
Photos Credit: Carol Rae Hansen,
2008 All rights reserved
Photos Credit: Carol Rae Hansen,
2008 All rights reserved
STUDENTS, PARENTS, & INSTRUCTORS CORNERS
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Parents and Students
Photos Credit: Maria Villarrubia, 2015, all rights reserved
The Lending Library
ETA has always lent educational resources for children, parents, grandparents, and caregivers through our Lending Library. Each client is allowed to take home up to two Lending Library books a week, as long as he/she is in good standing with previous returns. Located in our Therapy Suite classroom, the shelves are refilled quarterly with representative samples of our more than 1,000+ volumes on horses, ponies, cats, dogs, wild animals (for children) and professional guidance books on disabilities, family needs, horsemanship, theory, and support services for adults.
Family Involvement is Vital at ETA
Parents are deeply appreciated resources at Equine Therapy Associates. They are invaluable as members of our volunteer community, essential supporters of our curriculum development effort at home, and welcome adjuncts at horse shows, trailrides, and fieldtrips. All of us here at ETA want you and your family to find ETA a solace for your needs, a place to have a break from the daily stresses, and a tremendous opportunity for growth. We would welcome your time, treasure and talent at ETA. Please contact us at (301) 972-7833. Thank you!
"Good behavior starts in the home, it is reinforced by civics studies and deportment in school, and it should be enhanced by every activity of daily life. It can be taught, it can be reinforced, it should be the norm, and it should be the expected behavior at all times. Attempting to create 'good behavior,' attempting to avoid disruptive behavior, and attempting to focus on learning solely by the use of drugs rarely works." - Carol Rae Hansen
Instructors
ETA is a unique NARHA, PATH Int'l., 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!
So what else is different at ETA?
We plant a garden down at the barn, so you and your child can go home with peppers, pumpkins and tomatoes.
Unlike 80+% of NARHA, PATH Int'l., member centers, we don’t keep our horses and ponies for only an average of two years, and then sell/send some off to an uncertain future; we’ve never sold an equine in four decades ofhorse-keeping.
We stress conservation and re-use.
We don’t charge for coaching at horseshows; in fact, we divide trailering expenses by the number who travel, and we pay our own share of the expenses if we show.
We teach respect for the land, and our duty to preserve and protect God’s creation.
If we accept you into our program, and if we don’t have the equipment we need to meet your needs, we’ll buy it, build it, or find it.
We've built a hay barn of metal 125 feet downwind of the stables to safeguard the ponies, an isolation stall to prevent the spread of even rare infections, and a covered viewing stand for parents and therapists!
Our animals don’t have ulcers, like some 50% of American show horses; they are pleasure animals for our family, they work with our clients, they trail ride, and they show, they event, and they rest!
We’d be honored to have you join our special family. Click to learn more about ETA and our wonderful friends!