MANE TO TAIL THERAPY of TEXAS
North Texas Premier Source for Hippotherapy, Speech Therapy, Equine Therapy, and Animal Assisted Therapy
North Texas Premier Source for Hippotherapy
Speech Therapy | Hippotherapy | Therapeutic Riding | Social Skills Groups & Camps
Mane to Tail Therapy of Texas provides Speech Therapy by two licensed Speech Therapists and a Path Certified Therapeutic Riding Instructor
- • Hippotherapy
- • Speech Therapy
- • Therapeutic Riding
- • Animal Assisted Therapy
- • Social Skills Groups & Camps
- • Cooking
- • Field Trips
Therapy Services
Utilizing horses for opening communication pathways, building relationships, improving listening comprehension and oral expression.
Focuses on teaching the skill of horseback riding.
Private therapy focuses on receptive/expressive language, articulation, social skills, fluency, and voice.
Why the Horse?
Adapted from the American Hippotherapy Association
The multidimensional movement of the horse provides systems-wide impact on human neurophysiology.
The motor and sensory input is coupled and highly organized.
The movement can be manipulated in many ways to address an extremely broad range of system impairments – including:
- cognition
- speech/language
- sensory processing nervous/limbic
- circulatory, respiratory, motor and musculoskeletal systems
The benefits of speech therapy are myriad, and include
- impacting sensory processing
- listening comprehension
- oral expression
- oral motor
- critical thinking
- social awareness
- being able to make inferences and draw conclusions
- cause and effect determination
- make predictions
- effectively sharing spaces with others
The communicative bond and relationship with the horse regulates systems to open up the social pathway.
Melanie McDonald
M.S., CCC/SLP, CAIP, CASDCS Speech/
Language Pathologist
Morgan McDonald
B.S., SLP-A, CAIP, CTRI (PATH Certified Therapeutic Riding Instructor) , Speech Therapist – PATH Int. Therapeutic Riding Instructor
Mane to Tail Therapy of Texas
214-906-1668
Our office is in Plano, TX, and our horses are located in Flower Mound.