Disability Training

Disability Training can be termed as planned and systematically arranged procedures and other interventions designed to help persons with disabilities achieve a higher level of personal sufficiency. Monty’s Principles can be used in disability training.

What is Monty’s Principles?

Monty’s Principles is about god relationship between a horse and a trainer, but it can only occur when there is good will on both sides (trainer and horse). Monty's principles also known as "Join-Up" is an act of making a horse wanting to tay with you instead of running away from you.

The training method used is called “Equus”. It is a language of gestures and not sound. Monty has written extensively about how Equus is done and thus how Join Up is accomplished.

Monty developed some principles to communicate with horses. Using the same principles he teaches children with learning disabilities on the day to day activities. These principles have come in handy for teaching children with learning disabilities.

Monty has used success of Kinghurst as a model for schools world wide. Monty offers his programme Monty’s Principles to schools, corporations and equine therapy groups.

Monty’s Principles have been developed in cooperation with experienced teachers in different environments. It trains teachers in the use of a method for teaching that employs a horse’s communication system as a model to aid teachers in class instructions and provides course materials for the method.

Medical personnel are now using the Join-Up communication formula when working with children with autism.

The Join-Up principles can be applied on children with Cerebral Palsy. I have taken Christabel to a stable and she has tested a bit of riding on a horse. This has been a limited experience due to time constraint. Initially, she had to visit the stable in order to know the horse she was supposed to use.

She had to touch and feel the horse and occasionally feed the horse. She finally rod the horse for a limited time and the programme ended due to other demands. The short stint she had with the horse was very exciting for her and she was talking about it at home. The programme will be continued later. Monty and Pat Roberts

This is a short article on disability training using one unique method of Equus.

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