An employer or client will expect no less of them. Positive feedback from parents, teachers and therapists indicates the validity of therapeutic riding as a treatment for autistic children. The children develop special relationships with the horses that quickly generalize to increased contact and involvement with teachers, trainers and family members. The sense of confidence and competence they gain from their horsemanship is unparalleled by any other experience. She also teaches children with disabilities at the Westview School in Houston.
Autism is a developmental disability that often appears during the first three years of life.
Autism is associated with abnormalities in brain structure and neurological disorder of the brain's function. It vacillates between being the third and fourth most common developmental disabilities. It occurs in approximately 5-15 per 10,000 births. It is four times more common in boys than it is in girls. Autism is not determined by racial, ethnic, social, lifestyle, educational or psychological factors.