Welcome to the Autumn Dancer Riding Academy
where children experience and achieve through horses!

Our program specializes in one on one horseback riding activities for children living with physical handicaps and learning disabilities.

Autumn Dancer Riding Academy provides both therapeutic riding and hippotherapy services.

Come and enjoy a small farm-family setting, where your child can achieve idependence and confidence in riding and caring for horses.   
 
DISORDERS AND DIAGNOSES:
Autism
Autism spectrum disorders
Cerebral Palsy
Downs Syndrome
Multiple Sclerosis
Muscular Dystrophy
Scoliosis
Spina Bifida
many other diagnoses as well

WHY CHOOSE AUTUMN DANCER RIDING ACADEMY?
The owner is a Massachusetts State Licensed physical therapist with a post graduate doctoral degree in physical therapy and  over 16 years experience. She is also NARHA certified for therapeutic riding, AHA certified for hippotherapy, and a licensed riding instructor in the state of Massachusetts.

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Autumn Dancer Riding Academy LLC
provides hippotherapy and therapeutic riding lessons for children who are working through difficulties related to injury, illness, trauma, and other causes of handicaps or disabilities. Most children, two years and older, are appropriate to utilize the motion of the horse to achieve greater strength, balance, motor skills, and sensory integration.

THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND HIPPOTHERAPY
What is the difference?

THERAPEUTIC RIDING is the instruction of an individual, with a disability or handicap, to ride a horse, with or without modifications to the saddle or the environment. Children with limited strength, endurance, coordination, posture, balance, and/or attention span are supported in the lesson to enable them to learn the skills to ride a horse or pony. Singing, rhyming, numbers, colors, and games are incorporated into the lesson program to add further enrichment for the rider.

HIPPOTHERAPY uses a horse's movement, in addition to the strategies of a physical, occupational, or speech therapist, to achieve goals set by those medical professionals. Games, songs, verbal, and visual skills are also incorporated into the program to further develop the child's communication skills, learning, and enjoyment of the therapy session.

Hippotherapy can some times be reimbursed by the rider's health insurance. A physician's referral may be required. All physical therapy goals are set to achieve functional needs and desires of the family and the rider.

 FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT US AT:

Autumn Dancer Riding Academy, LLC
c/o Ann Chernoch D.P.T.
65 Harrington Road
Westminster, Ma. 01473

Or call us at:
(978) 874 - 1015

email : autumndancer@verizon.net

DIRECTIONS:

Take Route 2 to exit 25 for Rte 2A/140S.
Follow Route 2A which is Main Street for Westminster.
Turn Left onto South Street at the Westminster Cracker building.
Go 2.0 miles and turn Left onto Harrington Road.

You will find the farm (named MARE MEADOW ACRES) at the top of the hill. The farm consists of a large brown barn and house on the right hand side of the road.