Therapeutic Riding of Hopkins seeks to serve children with disabilities. Our primary goal is to provide hands on, personal, and interactive therapy. This is done through the unique use of horses. We desire to be trained in the proper methods of therapeutic riding, enabling us to be of assistance during the riding sessions. Through our partnership with Maryland Therapeutic Riding (MTR), we are committed to both physical and emotional support for these children. We wish to not only provide them with the support and help needed for the exercises performed on horseback, but also to be there to witness their progress, and encourage and engage them along the way. Therapy of this kind is known to be beneficial for children with both physical disabilities and genetic disorders such as autism and downs syndrome, but it is not the physical movements of the therapy alone that benefit these children. It is the experience itself, and their personal enjoyment and receptiveness of it. As members of TROH, our mission is to be a consistent, and truly beneficial part of these children's experience, in its entirety, providing them with the chance to progress and be healed to the fullest possible extent.

Website: www.jhu.edu/troh