Blog 17: Fourth Interview

Interview 4:

1. How important is gait alignment, in helping a child to walk?
2. How does the therapist go about the rehabilitation? Is it one therapist that sticks with a patient, or multiple?
3. What effect does it have on the child if they see a different therapist every time?
4. How do the children generally respond to the horse?
5. How important is it for the kids to have the same horse? How many care?
6. What is the habilitation process usually like, for the kids?
7. How many patients require multiple therapies, like Speech and Physical therapies together?
8. How do the volunteers help, aside from the assigned sidewalking duties?
9. Is it important to have the same volunteers for the kids? Do certain children make friends with the sidewalkers?
10. How do the toys help the different children?
11. How else do the horses themselves help the children, emotionally speaking?
12. How do you keep the children engaged? (Aside from things previously mentioned)
13. What happens when a child cannot keep on-task?
14. What happens when a child reacts badly to the horse?
15. What happens when a horse reacts badly to the child?
16. How do the parents react when their child has to be removed from a session, early?
17. Do some children only attend the riding sessions? How do they fare, compared to children who work in the clinic as well?
18. What is the parent’s general opinion of the ranch, and the work done there?
19. I’ve seen a patient who had an ABA come in place of a sidewalker. How much does Hippotherapy help him, in relation to his outside therapy?
20. What happens when kids don’t continue their therapy at home? Have you seen a case like that?