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Horse Powered Reading®
Horse Powered Reading® integrates social-emotional learning with academics; thus allowing students see and experience reading with their entire mind, body and emotions by creating metaphors for the skills involved in reading.
Students interact with horses from the ground, while using toys and props to identify obstacles and learn five critical reading skills - phonemic awareness, decoding, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
HorsePowered Math was developed by Nancy Lyon after years of working with youth as an educator at the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center in Kearney, Nebraska. Her approach builds upon the principles Dr. Michele Pickel used to develop Horse Powered Reading.
Medicine and Horsemanship teaches medical students and other healthcare students and practitioners to develop awareness of the subtleties of self-presentation and communication that are necessary for the provider-patient relationship and all other professional encounter.
A Communication Model for the Doctor-Patient Relationship
by Beverley Kane, MD Stanford University School of Medicine
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The International Institute for Animal Assisted Play Therapy (IIAAPT)
The International Institute for Animal Assisted Play Therapy (IIAAPT) was founded to provide cutting-edge training, certification, and continuing professional development opportunities for mental health and animal professionals interested in the integration of psychotherapy, play therapy, family therapy, ethology, animal assisted therapy, and animal welfare, or in providing support services to therapists who wish to conduct AAPT.