One place we all love to spend time is the Hackney Play Therapy Center. In the ball pit filled with brightly colored balls, and in the mazes and tunnels that fill the building, children from Alabama School for the Deaf, Alabama School for the Blind and Helen Keller School laugh and play. Our physical therapist says it's play therapy, strengthening muscles and teaching balance and other skills, but we think it's just plain fun. Not too far from the HKS campus is the Marianna Greene Henry Special Equestrians Arena. In this program, Helen Keller students get to meet and ride horses, most of us for the first time.
Riding exercises a lot of muscles, so it's physical therapy too.
Being up on a horse means you have to balance yourself, use your legs to grip the sides of the horse, and lots of other skills. Like we said earlier, most students live right here on campus. These are the Elliot Cottages for the older students. Boys are on one side, girls on the other. The younger students live in Rogers Hall, closer to the administrative building.