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MISSION STATEMENT
Charleston Area Therapeutic Riding improves the lives of children and adults with disabilities at the area’s oldest nationally accredited therapeutic horseback riding center.
Welcome to CATR's website!
 CATR staff and volunteers are dedicated to helping students find joy and accomplishment through riding. Charleston Area Therapeutic Riding, Inc. (CATR) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization serving individuals with a variety of disabilities and conditions since 1991. With the assistance of certified instructors, physical therapists, doctors, psychologists, special education teachers, and a well-trained volunteer corps, we now serve over 130 children and adults per year whose disabilities include:
- Autism
- Cerebral Palsy
- Downs Syndrome
- Emotional Disabilities
- Learning Disabilities
- Head Trauma
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- Mental Disabilities
- Speech Impairments
- Spina Bifida
- Seizure Disorder
- Visual/Hearing Impairments
- Multiple Sclerosis
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Many people ask how riding and working with horses actually makes a difference in the lives of students with disabilities. Therapeutic Riding activities offer a motivating combination of sensory, cognitive, and emotional stimulation that facilitates mobility, socialization, and independance. The horse's rhythmical swinging movement challenges the rider's whole body to continually respond with natural movements. Tight muscles relax, lax muscles are strengthened, coordination is improved, and circulation increased.
Blue Ribbon Event coming in September!!!
Join us for our fourth annual Blue Ribbon Event to benefit Charleston Area Therapeutic Riding's Scholarship Fund on Friday September 10, 2010 from 12-1 pm at the Francis Marion Hotel. Our guest speaker will be Stacy L. Pearsall, award winning photographer who served three tours of duty in Iraq and was the receipent of the Bronze Star Medal and the Commendation with Valor for heroic actions under fire. Tickets are $70 per person, seating is limited and reservations are required. Call the office at 559-6040 to reserve by credit card, or send a check to CATR at PO Box 146 Johns Island, SC 29457. The Blue Ribbon Event is a fantastic way to spend a friday lunch with friends, and raise money for a good cause. We hope to see you there!
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