Faculty Continuing Education QUANTUM

Karen Gardner, MOT, OTR, HPCS Certificates of attendance with contact hours Karen has a Master’s degree in Occupational will be provided to all participants to submit to Therapy and is Director of Therapy for the their individual professional organizations for LEAP FARM, Inc. JoyRide Center, near Houston, Texas. She is a continuing education credit. 27 contact hours are Hippotherapy Clinical Specialist (HPCS), available for this course. Courses are not “pre- Presents: PATH, Intl Master Instructor and Driving approved”. Instructor. She is an OT at JoyRide and an AHA, Inc. Approved adjunct professor for the OTA Program at Lone Star College. Therapy specialties include Hotel Information sensory integration, aquatic and NDT. She also Level I- Hippotherapy incorporates the concepts of Floortime into her Holiday Inn Express Trinity treatment sessions. She is an active member of 2125 Corporate Center Drive Treatment Principles the AHA Faculty and has presented at local, (11 minutes/ 5.5 miles) state and national conferences on a variety of FEB. 2ND – 5TH, 2017 topics within OT, Hippotherapy, adaptive riding *Reserve by Jan 6th for discount price of and horse training. Karen’s current equine $99 per night (8:30-5:30 Thurs- Sat & 8:30-3:00 Sun) experience includes competitive carriage driving and dressage. In her younger years, she spent Travel Information many years participating in hunter/jumper competitions. She utilizes a variety of natural horsemanship techniques in her horse training Quantum Leap Farm is located approximately and therapy sessions. She is a member of 28 minutes (20.7 miles) from Tampa AOTA, TOTA, PATH, Intl, EFMHA, LSTEN, International Airport, and 38 minutes (26 miles) Houston Area Carriage Association, Lone Star from St. Petersburg-Clearwater International. Dowsing Club, and the Clear Gem and Mineral Transportation to and from the facility/hotel will Society. Karen is a past President and former need to be arranged by the participants. Board Member of the American Hippotherapy Quantum Leap Farm Coordinator and Staff are Association, Inc. available for transportation upon request.

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Hosted by: QUANTUM LEAP FARM, INC. 10401 Woodstock Rd, Odessa FL 33556

Farm Office: 813-920-9250, ext. 208 www.quantumleapfarm.org 10401 Woodstock Rd., Odessa, FL 3356 Coordinator: ALEXIS LOPEZ, MOT, OTR/L www.quantumleapfarm.org

QLF Director of Operations & Hippotherapy Phone: 813-920-9250, ext. 208 Cell Phone: 954-592-9192 Email: [email protected] Fax: 813-920-2124

Level 1 Treatment Principles Registration Information REGISTRATION INFORMATION

This 4 day course is an overview of the All attendees will receive a hard copy of the AHA, Inc. Name: ______principles of hippotherapy, designed for Level I Treatment Principles Manual. The course fee therapists (PT, OT, SLP, COTA, PTA, SLPA) also includes breakfast and lunch. During the course Address: ______interested in utilizing HPOT as a treatment you will be on and/or working directly with horses. City/ State/ Zip: ______strategy. Please have appropriate clothing/footwear. Helmets

The first day puts the emphasis on the horse and will be provided. If your weight exceeds 275lbs., you Phone: ______the importance of the quality of the horse may be excused from the mounted portion of the Email: ______working in hippotherapy. Using experiential course. Indicate any special restrictions on the registration form. non-mounted activities, the student will learn to Height: ______Weight: ______(This information is interpret the body language of the horse, groom, Cancellation Policy: AHA, Inc. and Quantum Leap needed for mounted practicum) If your weight exceeds tack and lead the hippotherapy horse, recognize Farm reserve the right to adjust program dates, times 250 lbs. you may be excused from this portion. desirable conformation, soundness, movement and faculty to accommodate unforeseen circumstances quality, gaits; and understand the training, including cancellation of the course due to insufficient Special needs-mobility restrictions/ Dietary restrictions: conditioning and humane treatment of the registration up to 3 weeks prior to the scheduled start ______therapy horse. Building on these equine skills, date. Notification will only be made to advanced the participant will explore the dynamic system *AHA, Inc. Member # ______registrants. Neither AHA, Inc. nor Quantum Leap of therapist, patient, horse handler and horse as (*A copy of your membership certificate is required) Farm are responsible for any expenses incurred by is applied in hippotherapy. registrants due to such adjustments. Professional Credentials as listed on course certificate:

Topics include: The history and development of *If a participant wishes to cancel; cancellation HPOT in the US, understanding the notices must be provided in writing no less than Non-therapists: Please Circle One: Riding Instructor/ biomechanical and sensory interaction of Horse Handler/ Administration/ Other: ______horse/human, horse selection and suitability for 3 weeks prior to the course start date to receive a treatment, appropriate horse handling, tack and refund, minus a $115 administrative fee. No RATES equipment selection, safety principles, patient refunds will be given for cancellations received AHA, Inc. Member *Non-AHA, Inc. Members and horse selection, precautions and within three weeks prior to the start of the course. contraindications, patient evaluation, Early Registration $850 $975 maximizing the effects of equine movement Course Prerequisite: Successful completion of the After January 1st, 2017 including school figures and movement on-line “Intro to Equine Skills” test reviewing equine $900 $1025 progression, the role of the hippotherapy team care and management. Completion of the course must *(AHA Membership is $95 annually) Join today at: members, documentation, business aspects, and be at least 3 weeks prior to the start of the course. current research in the effects of equine www.americanhippotherapyassociation.org AHA, Inc. staff will confirm with the host site that the movement. test has been completed and passed. The cost of the METHOD OF PAYMENT test is $35.00. Visit the AHA, Inc. website under *Adaptive riding instructors, horse handlers,  Check Enclosed (Payable to Quantum Leap Farm, Inc.) administrators and others interested in HPOT “Curriculum Overview,” under the Education tab for a principles are welcome to attend, teamed with link to purchase. Credit Card:  VISA  MASTERCARD  AMEX their therapist. Graduate occupational, speech *The curriculum may be utilized only under Name on Card: ______and physical therapists must be in their last conditions set forth by AHA, Inc. semester of graduate school to be eligible to Card #:______CVV: _____ attend this course. Exp. Date: ______Zip Code:______