This is the first book on therapeutic horseback riding meant for both parents and practitioners. Naomi Scott offers information about the amazing results possible with hippotherapy from recreational riding for individuals with physical and mental disabilities to the competitions some riders enter (and win). Parents and caregivers looking for coverage of a specific special need will find most useful the fourteen case studies included covering individuals with intrauterine stroke cerebral palsy transverse myelitis Parkinsons disease paralysis sensory integration dysfunction multiple sclerosis shaken baby syndrome sensory damage stroke seizures infantile spasms Down syndrome and autism.