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Caz Pershin
Ms. Trotter
Lit period 04
16 March 2017
Annotated Bibliography
Davidson, Karren. About Our Center. About Our Center. Trax Equestrian Center, n.d. Web. 16
This website is an information page for a non profit organization designed to help children with
special needs therapeutically ride horses. Trax is overseen by a licensed speech pathologist, and
occupational and behavior therapists who evaluate the students. The mission is to improve motor
functions of the students by learning how to ride and caring for horses. This site is very
important to my research because for my capstone I would like to volunteer my time here.
This site defines and describes the behavior of the intellectually disabled. It describes intellectual
and in adaptive behavior, which covers many everyday social and practical skills. Intellectual
functioning meaning being limited to general mental capacity such as learning, reasoning, or
problem solving. Adaptive behavior meaning limited to conceptual, social, and practical skills.
This site is important to my research because I would like to learn about intellectually disabled
children.
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Joseph, Thomas. Sports and Children with Special Needs. Health Encyclopedia. University of
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?
contenttypeid=160&contentid=20
This website describes the benefits of physical activities on the intellectually disabled person.
Some of the benefits include the obvious physical health such as better fitness, better control of
weight, and reduced risk of diseases. The other benefits to these sports were more than just
physical such as better emotional and psychological health, improved self-esteem and improved
social and motor skill. This site is good for my research because I would like to know the
benefits of sports on an intellectually disabled person before volunteering my time to the cause.
Langtree, Ian. Disability Sports: Information on Sport for the Disabled. Disabled World.
world.com/sports/
This website describes adaptive sports, also known as disabled sports for athletes that have
physical or mental disabilities. Sports do not only have effects on the physical body of a person
but for those with disabilities but rehabilitating effects into society. Seventy two percent of
disabled people play no sports or are involved in any physical activity, compared to forty seven
percent of non-disabled people. This site is important to my research because sports for the
What is Equestrian Therapy? Equestrian Therapy. GeneratePress, n.d. Web. 16 March 2017.
http://www.equestriantherapy.com
This site describes equine assisted therapy as a form of therapy that makes use of horses to help
promote emotional growth. Equestrian therapy is usually applied to patients with ADD, anxiety,
autism, dementia, delay in mental development, down syndrome and other genetic syndromes.
Equine therapy has been used to teach troubled youth how to learn, react and follow
instructions. Horses are a good animal to use for therapy because they respond and give feedback
to the riders behavior and have also been known to mirror the riders emotion. This site is
important to my research because I would like to volunteer my time in the field of equine therapy