Windhake, Namibia – Susan de Mayer’s horses have different effects on different children. Hypractive kids have learned to be somewhat quiet around them when incredible children are inspired to contact and bond with them.
De Mayer runs a program of South African country Namibia, which also uses the humility of horses to help children with disabilities and conditions for learning ADHD and autism.
On the morning of each week, the special school he assisted in the Dusty Paddock of De Mayer, just outside the capital Windhoc, is illuminated by a group of eight to 10 children. Children ride on horses, grooming them, strokes them and often say, De Myer, talk to them.
De Mayer Grows on a farm surrounded by horse and they are always part of his life. He said that they have a quality that is invaluable: no matter how different they are, they don’t judge the kids.
“Horse is the hero in this whole situation because these kids do not want to be close to many people,” said D Myer.
De Mayer’s program, “Horse of the Horse”, is supported by the Namibian Equestrian Federation and won a prize last year from the International Equestrian Federation because it underlines the horse’s wonderful features to increase sensitivity and intuition. “
Horse therapy has been promoted by autism groups and those who have had a positive impact with children with learning. And generally animal therapy has proven to be effective in many cases, such as dogs that are therapy cats taken to hospital and nursing homes with post-traumatic stress disorder and therapy cats.
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De Mayer joked that he had a “two-and-a-half-half horse”. There are two Arabs-a white horse called Faranah and a brown jailing, a small horse called “half-” when a “half” is a small horse, who raises his head for 5 years of age.
De Meyer said that Arabs are often most effective for children’s therapy.
“It gives them self-esteem. When they stroke the horse, the therapy starts because it is very larger than their height, and they are not afraid to stroke the horse … and then drive it and tell the horse what they want,” he said.
D Myer works with various conditions or children with disabilities or disabilities, who are incredible or touching sensitive, and some who were born in the alcohol syndrome of the fetus and have problems with their development.
He is interested in starting similar programs from other countries in Africa and Asia.
“The changes I have seen with the students are significant,” Crissel Lu, a teacher at Dagbrake School, says that it is one of the two public schools in Namibia for children with intellectual disability. “We have a student who likes to talk a lot. When we come here, he knows he has to be quiet. He is sitting in his place.”
Lu said, “Some of them you see that they are more open, they are happy. Some of them were very scared when they started riding on horseback but now they are very excited.
De Meyer said that his program helps in subtle-motor skills, gross-motor skills, muscle strengthening, adjustment, balance and posture, who are important for kids who fight and learn at a desk at school.
A general practice de Maya’s kids they give up on the tasks and extend their arms straight and to the side, simply take the horse around the paddock to balance as a groom using their torso and the body below.
When some kids laugh and look like they are growing.
“We separate the world for these kids,” said D Myer.
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