KHTS Radio Santa Clarita Radio – Santa Clarita News
Host: Janice Murray
Guests: Denise Redmond, Executive Director of Carousel Ranch; Debbie Golin, parent of children in the program
Carousel Ranch is dedicated to providing equestrian therapy for disabled children, creating a unique and individualized program to meet each child’s specific needs and goals. Utilizing a combination of vaulting (gymnastics on a moving horse) and therapeutic riding (both English and Western), we strive to create an atmosphere where every child can and will succeed… a place where therapy is disguised as fun.
Carousel Ranch – August 8, 2016
Therapeutic riding is horseback riding for the disabled. It combines instruction in traditional horsemanship skills with concepts of physical therapy to improve the strength, balance, and self-esteem for physically and mentally disabled children and adults.
To an individual with a disability, horseback riding takes them into a new, unexplored world, and provides a sense of independence and freedom that defies their disability. Therapeutic riding challenges our riders in ways that they have seldom been challenged before.
