Mission Statement:
Ellington Therapy Riding Center provides occupational therapy services in a unique clinic setting. After evaluation, each diverse learner is provided with the tools and strategies to improve their skills related to a physical, emotional, social, and/or mental health disability. By improving balance, strength, sensory processing and range of motion we are able to achieve functional outcomes and an improved level of independence. Our clients seek to advance not only their access to their personal environments but also their contributions to their family and community.
Occupational Therapy at ETRC: “skills for the job of living”
o Specializing in children and adults with:
Autism, Sensory processing disorder, Dyspraxia, problems with
Handwriting, problems with Executive
function, Visual-Motor deficits, Traumatic Brain Injury, Upper
Extremity weakness/coordination
o Specializing in integrating Hippotherapy as a tool into the
patient’s plan of care
o Motor Development
o Play-Based Development
o Sensory Integration Techniques/Self-Regulation strategies
o Social-Skills group for children with autism
o Neurodevelopmental Technique (NDT)
o Manual Therapy
o Brain Gym/ Yoga/ Therapeutic Exercise
o Handwriting evaluation and remediation
o Behavioral strategies to support learning
o Specializing in Canine, Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) for children
struggling with academics: certified by Community Canines for
Companionship and Care of R.I. (CCCC)
o Vocational Skills Development
Angel’s for Alex
Alex and his Mom are very blessed to have some
amazing people in their lives. These Angels have made it possible
for ETRC to realize our dream of adding another therapy horse to our
stable. These Angels have demonstrated an incredible random act of
kindness that will touch the lives of many people, young and old
alike. We at ETRC would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to
these Angels, and we hope that their generosity will be returned to
them tenfold.
“Make yourself familiar with the angels,
And behold them frequently in spirit;
For without being seen,
They are present with you.”
St Francis de Sales
Volunteer Opportunities:
Volunteers needed for Saturdays, Mondays and
Tuesdays. Horse experience a bonus.
For details contact Bev at 860-649-4360 or beverlysadler@hotmail.com
Operations:
Closed for all major holidays, basically the CT.
public school schedules including: Christmas, Christmas Eve, News
Years Eve, Thanksgiving, Good Friday, Easter, Martin Luther King
Day, Presidents day, Fourth of July weekend, Labor Day weekend,
Memorial Day weekend, Columbus day.
PLEASE ALWAYS CHECK THE CALENDER
PAGE BEFORE YOUR SESSION
"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." - George Washington Carver