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GOALS & OUTCOMES - Suggestions and Ideas
Goals | What you want to do | Outcomes |
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Social and Community Participation | Participate in sporting or recreation activity | Technical competence in horse riding and equestrian skills |
Increased interest in one's own life and larger world throuh a greater variety of experiences | ||
Improved wellbeing, perception of quality of life and life satisfaction that comes from being active and engaged with the community. | ||
Improved physical capacity and capability to participate. | ||
Improved physical and emotional wellbeing from participating in exercise. | ||
Improve my social communication | Improved socialisation and interpersonal skills through connecting with others who share a common love of horses | |
Highly motivated experience where participant is asked to provide feedback, follow instructions, direction and communicate to horses and support personnel | ||
Experience provides a basis for conversation and story telling from the participant to their friends/family | ||
Improved physical fitness and wellbeing | Core muscles are strengthened from learning to site comfortably and ride with the movement of the horse | |
Increased capacity to participate in physical activity eg. walking, bike riding | ||
Reduction of abnormal movement patterns and spasticity | ||
Improve emotional and social wellbeing | Improved confidence, emotional control and self- discipline from developing patience and focus of attention that comes from working with a large animal | |
Horses are powerful motivation and a calming influence for participants | ||
Trust and confidence in individual’s own capacity to manage and control a large animal. A sense of achievement from participation | ||
Development of respect and a love for animals | ||
Managed my sensory needs, sensory processing and sensory integration | ||
Participate in social community experience | Life satisfaction from participating in a shared activity. Participants share a common love of horses, which help build socialisation and interpersonal skills | |
Experience of outdoor recreation, enjoyment and fun | ||
Improved wellbeing, perception of quality of life and life satisfaction that comes from being active and engaging with your community | ||
Skills Development | Learn technical competence in horse husbandry and management, including leading skills, feeding and grooming | Supported experience in managing horses |
Improved multi-tasking and executive functioning capacity | Following multi step tasks and completing goals | |
Applied knowledge of safe behaviours | ||
Improved communication through providing feedback, following instructions, direction and communication with the horse and support personnel | ||
Practice meeting responsibilities and staying on task to completion | Ability to plan and organise ahead of time eg. improved sequencing, patterning and motor planning through skills utilised in games played in sessions |