Located at a 35-acre facility in Darien, SMILES has been helping people for about 36 years.
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Bottom Right: Equine-assisted activities and therapies are unique, said SMILES Executive Director Kim Good, “because you’re enlisting the help of a 1,000-plus pound animal in helping both children and adults reach their individual goals.”
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Top right: “I promise, the look on the clients’ faces, after they have reached one of their goals that you have helped them reach? It’s priceless,” said Katie Boss, SMILES program coordinator.
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Horses have an innate understanding of helping humans, said Kim Good, and it seems to have empowered all who work at SMILES.
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There are many physical, emotional, psycho-social and cognitive benefits from the therapeutic riding and unmounted programming SMILES administers.
There are many physical, emotional, psycho-social and cognitive benefits from the therapeutic riding and unmounted programming SMILES administers.
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DARIEN — Nestled in idyllic rural surroundings is a place where people with special needs have been gaining emotional, social and physical benefits by working with horses.
Bottom Right: Equine-assisted activities and therapies are unique, said SMILES Executive Director Kim Good, “because you’re enlisting the help of a 1,000-plus pound animal in helping both children and adults reach their individual goals.”
Top right: “I promise, the look on the clients’ faces, after they have reached one of their goals that you have helped them reach? It’s priceless,” said Katie Boss, SMILES program coordinator.
There are many physical, emotional, psycho-social and cognitive benefits from the therapeutic riding and unmounted programming SMILES administers.
There are many physical, emotional, psycho-social and cognitive benefits from the therapeutic riding and unmounted programming SMILES administers.
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