Lanterna Rally

Author: Rebecca Cook

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-04-03

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781497545625

Has anyone shown up in flip flops or shorts for riding? Do people run in the barn or yell to a friend and spook your horse? Has anyone given your horse a treat without your permission and you worried about them getting bitten? It can be frustrating. You think they should know better. You don't want to come across as mean or bossy but you also don't have the time it takes to explain the reason behind barn rules. That's why you need this book!Barn Rules is a companion booklet in the Brown Pony Series but was written with a much broader audience in mind: - Parents and grandparents desiring a safe horse experience for kids - 4-H leaders - Lesson instructors - Horse camps - Therapeutic equine assisted activity programs - Mental health professionals offering equine learning or psychotherapy - Therapists offering hippotherapy - Horse lovers - New horse ownersThe barn rules cover what to do, what not to do, and why. The first section of each chapter offers background information on the highlighted rule, then summarizes the information using Scripting (the author's form of Social StoriesTM), and finishes with an adorable original art poster depicting the rule with a YES icon or a NO icon and two or three sentences of explanation. There are rules that cover for example, what to wear and what not to wear, how to behave around horses, and to wait for permission for various horse activities.The book ends with two bonus pages of the entire art collection of rules and the print version can be cut out, laminated and used as Picture Communication Cards for horse games, as a visual aid during barn orientation, or for children with autism. This book is a great tool for riding instructors to use during the first visit with clients and for horse owners to share with friends and family who are interested in riding.The Brown Pony Series consists of 4 Guidebooks.Book One: Introduction to Hippotherapy (Available Now)This book offers a vignette of hippotherapy appropriate for parents and children considering hippotherapy treatment and expresses clearly the differences between hippotherapy and the therapeutic use of horses.Book Two: Risk Management and Safety in Hippotherapy (Available Now)This book illuminates years of research both published and unpublished that has been completed by the author on safety and managing risks when combining horses and people with disabilities in a therapy milieu.Book Three: Considering Hippotherapy in Your Career Plans (Coming Soon)This book is designed to provide information for high school and college students, as well as practicing therapists, who are considering a career involving horses and therapy.Book Four: The Business of Hippotherapy (Available Now)Why reinvent the wheel? With 20 years of private practice experience, I designed a number of therapy business forms that have facilitated the professionalism and efficacy of the provision of therapy using a hippotherapy approach to treatment and I'm sharing this information with you in book four.PLUS ...Barn Rules: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series (Available now)A teaching tool of basic barn rules in social stories and pictures for instructors, riders, parents, and volunteers.Tally Up: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series (Available Now)Checklists created from a task analysis of showmanship and riding skills that can be used to improve understanding of a Judge's class placing's and to provide a foundation of skills to practice for competition. Also, a great breakdown of skills for an instructor to use in lesson planning.Safe Horse Handling: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series (Coming Soon)Increase awareness of common sense safety to implement when working around horses. Some of the tips may be inadvertently overlooked until there is an accident. Great for equine instructors, therapeutic riding volunteer training, and equine assisted activity and therapy programs.