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Horse power at its gentle best
April 2010
The benefits to autistic children of bonding with horses can be extraordinary, says Ceri Radford.
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Oak Saunders Photo: GRAEME HUNTER
Rowen Saunders tried everything to get through to her autistic son, Oak. "I would hold him, look into his eyes, talk to him, but it only seemed to push him away," she says. Oak was diagnosed aged two and a half, after he stopped talking, started making a monotone humming noise, and became prone to inexplicable bouts of terrified rage. While he could arrange all his Thomas the Tank Engine toys in order of height, he was incapable of holding eye contact. It seemed as if nothing could get through to him; nothing, that is, until he encountered a horse for the first time.
By Ceri Radford, The Telegraph, Monday April 19th 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/children_shealth/7598827/Horse-power-at-its-gentle-best.html
