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Activities Offered
  • Carriage/Cart Driving
  • Horseback Riding
Staff Training and Certification
  • Staff Training: A Consulting Physical Therapist
  • Staff Certification:NARHA Certified Instructors

Transportation
  • Accessible by Public Transportation: No

  • Transportation Provided by the Program: No

Notes

Founded in 1990, Riding Unlimited provides safe and affordable therapeutic horseback riding instruction for individuals with intellectual, physical and emotional disabilities in Dallas, Tarrant, Denton, Wise and Collin counties.

We are a North American Riding for the Handicapped Association (NARHA) Premier Accredited Center. Riding Unlimited participants range in age from 2 to senior adults.

Our program includes:
  • Therapeutic riding instruction in small groups or individual classes.
  • Participation in Special Olympics Equestrian Competition and other shows.
  • Instruction for the Riding Unlimited exhibition riders and drill team.
  • Carriage driving
Rider disabilities include:
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Spina Bifida
  • Attention Deficit Disorder
  • Intellectual Disabilities
  • Down Syndrome
  • Autism
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Visual & Hearing Impairment
  • Brain Injury
  • At-risk

Through exercises such as relay races, obstacle courses and ring toss, riders learn right-left discrimination, sequencing, language development and cooperation while enjoying a pleasurable experience that increases self-esteem, concentration and confidence.

Physical benefits are realized when riders balance, support and move their body as though they were walking. The benefits for the student include improvement in muscle strength, mobility, body control and balance. Riders also experience improved respiration, circulation and digestion.

Riding Unlimited's NARHA certified instructors, a consulting physical therapist and the program participants and/or their parents, develop goals for each rider depending on their particular needs and abilities. Riders are evaluated and monitored throughout the session by their instructor.

At the end of each session, instructors complete rider evaluation forms to document progress toward their goals. Riding Unlimited's overall program is evaluated on a regular basis by the Board of Directors.