Part One - WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP - 8 OF AUGUST - TUESDAY
Period Activities Places
Morning Registration of the participants Granja do Torto
Three workshops sessions:
  • Remedial educational vaulting; MARIETTA SCHULZ
  • Natural horsemanship; REINHARD MANTLER
  • Hippotherapy / centered riding; SANNA MATTILA and MARIE-THERESE KUIPERS
Granja do Torto
- Lunch to be decided
Afternoon Registration of the participants Granja do Torto
Three workshops sessions: as above Granja do Torto


Part Two - CONGRESS
CONGRESS - 8 OF AUGUST - TUESDAY
Period Activities Places
All day Registration of the participants Convention Center
17:00 - 19:00 FRDI - International Council Meeting - Part 1 (Full Members) Convention Center



Oral Comunication
CONGRESS - 9 OF AUGUST - WEDNESDAY
Period PLANALTO Auditorium AGUAS CLARAS Auditorium
07:00 - 08:30 Registration of the participants
08:30 - 10:00 CONGRESS OPENING
10:00 - 10:20 COFFEE BREAK
10:20 - 10:50 013; Safety vest for therapeutic riding; ANA RITA LANDERDAHL ABREU; Brasil 014; Program of attendance to equine therapy in the disabilities of learning (PAEDA); CLAUDIA DA COSTA MOTA; Brasil
10:50 - 11:20 042; Interactive vaulting, centered riding and yoga - an innovative approach to therapeutic riding; GISELA H. RHODES; USA 020; Pedagogical alternatives to minimize the anxiety and to increase the concentration in children with attention deficit hyperactive disorder - ADHD: the hipotherapy-vaulting in question.; ANTONIETA MARTINS ALVES; Brasil
11:20 - 11:50 075; Gait analysis of a therapy horse - Affects of weight and postural symmetry of rider on the quality of the horse's gait; LUCIANA RAMOS ROSA; Brasil 127; The riding therapy as an additional treatment on the acquisition of a best trunk alignment in CP carrier type moderated spastic quadriplegia using the ICF as base to the evaluation - case study; MANUELA DE ALMEIDA VIEIRA; Brasil
11:50 - 12:20 064; Indirect evaluation of patient`s waist rotation in hippotherapy sessions through horse´s biomechanical parameters; ANA HELOÍSA ARRUDA; Brasil 031; Transdisciplinarity: a new paradigm in therapeutic riding; AMAURI SOLON RIBEIRO; Brasil
12:20 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 14:30 012a; The influence of riding posture and horse's gait speed at lumbar erectors muscle activation through surface electromyography; REBECA DE BARROS SANTOS; Brasil 033a; The presentation of a book for disabled pupils in elementary and junior high schools who are enrolled in the integrated course of equestrian re-education; ELEONORA TRANFO; Italy
14:30 - 15:00 018; The effect of hippotherapy on ten children with cerebral palsy; RENEE CASADY; USA 021a; The world of therapeutic riding: study with children with Down Syndrome; ÁUREA ALEXANDRA CANAS COELHO; Portugal
15:00 - 15:30 022a; The rhythmic influence of therapeutical vaulting in the rehabilitation; ADRIANA PAGNI PERDIGÃO; Brasil 059; The world of the horses: possibilities of literacy.; NILCE DA SILVA; Brasil
15:30 - 16:00 068a; Initial phase on hippotherapy = the time to induce "a movement dialogue"; TEREZA DVORAKOVA; Czech Republic 099; Transdisciplinary mediation - theoretical conceptions and practical examples which justify a recent and functional acting; ANA PAULA GATTI PANIZZA; Brasil
16:00 - 16:20 COFFEE BREAK
16:20 - 16:50 043a; Eletromyografic comparative analysis of lumbar erector muscle on a cerebral palsy patient performing different postures on horseback; MAYARI TICIANI SAKAKURA; Brasil 034a; Ponies as facilitators in therapeutic horse riding; HELOISA BRUNA GRUBITS FREIRE; Brasil
16:50 - 17:20 057; Hippotherapy helping the rehabilitation of motor-coordination, balance and plantar support of a hemiparetic patient with an after-effect of pineal germinoma.; THAIS LYDIANI MANZOLIN; Brasil 120; Equestrian rehabilitation on profoundly multideficient child, the Prince; MARIA NIETO ARANA; Argentina
17:20 - 17:50 066; Use of hippotherapy as physiotherapy strategy treatment in improvement for postural steadiness in patient with lower limb amputated: a pilot study.; THAIS BORGES DE ARAÚJO; Brasil 010a; Pre sports riding therapist - a horse and a friend; JOSE MIGUEL MANZO RUIZ; Chile
Evening OFFICIAL CONGRESS OPENING
WELCOME COCKTAIL
(Convention Center)


Oral Comunication
CONGRESS - 10 OF AUGUST - THURSDAY
Period PLANALTO Auditorium AGUAS CLARAS Auditorium
08:00 - 08:30 038; Quatraplegia hippotheapy; MAIRA LIGA; Greece 055; Safeness in therapeutic riding: minimizing risks and providing better and intensive contact between people and horse; KETHER VAN PREHN ARRUDA; Brasil
08:30 - 09:00 076; The influence of therapeutic riding in the balance of individuals with neurological alterations using the Berg scale; EVELI MALUF; Brasil 138; How the child feels the horse: a friend who does good even it does not know it; LAURENT BAILLY; France
09:00 - 09:30 077; The effect of therapeutic riding in the posture and balance after a stroke: report case; ANA PAOLA NEGRI; Brasil 078; Riding therapy: what the pre-sporting phase can do to help the Down syndrome patient; VALÉRIA DE SÁ BARRETO GONÇALVES; Brasil
09:30 - 10:00 088; Therapeutic horseback riding results on muscular tonus of lower limbs and motor performance on children with spastic cerebral palsy; ANDRÉA BARALDI CUNHA; Brasil 119; Psychomotor activity in the clinic of transference and equestrian rehabilitation on child construction; ALDO M. LAUHIRAT; Argentina
10:00 - 10:20 COFFEE BREAK
10:20 - 10:50 090; Riding therapy and multisensory integration of postural balance; SATU SELVINEN ; Finland 134; Emphasising the importance of the therapy horse in equine assisted therapy curricula; BARBARA HEINE; Australia
10:50 - 11:20 097; Ways of intervention in therapeutic riding and hippotherapy. Studying, analyzis, categorizing, classification; IOANNIS NIKOLAOU ; Greece 135; Schooling and maintaining horses in the therapeutic program; MARY L. LONGDEN; Australia
11:20 - 11:50 105; Functional independence measure and therapeutic compliance. Their role in the construction and evaluation of the rehabilitation program.; ANTONELLA ARTUSO e CRISTINA PALAZZOLLO; Italy 001; Holistic therapeutic riding: re-educate in an echological and integrative manner to a new consciousness era.; CLAUDIA TANNUS DE MESQUITA; Brasil
11:50 - 12:20 111; Mounted sitting posture with crossed inferior members facilitating the spine cervical and the trunk extension; CARLOS ROBERTO FRANCK DA ROCHA; Brasil 002; Call of the wild - horses in psychotherapy; MONIKA MEHLEM; Germany
12:20 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 14:30 133; Observation and follow-up of epileptic child and pony activity for therapeutic aiming; ANNE MARIE TONIOLO; France 003a; Supraparadigmatic integrative model. The gathering point of psychology in the riding therapy.; FRANCISCO JAVIER URRA RIVEROS; Chile
14:30 - 15:00 113; Effect of hippotherapy in the trunk posture of sitting diplegic children; ROSANA CRUZ BARBOSA; Brasil 008; The professional of Psychology in the equine therapy: activities, techniques and difficulties; JULIANA PRADO FERRARI; Brasil
15:00 - 15:30 122; The effects of horseback riding on the balance of individuals with SCI: pilot study; WANG WAN HUA; Republic of China 011; The search for better quality of life for persons with neuroses and psychoses; GABRIELE BRIGITTE WALTER; Brasil
15:30 - 16:00 126; The utilization of techniques in bronchic desobstruction in patients with neuromotor disfunction in the riding therapy; MYLENA MEDEIROS; Brasil 019; Repairing the personality or giving aids for daily life. PMTV Psycho-motor-therapeutical and remedial vaulting; ULRIKE THIEL; The Netherlands
16:00 - 16:20 COFFEE BREAK
From 16:20 onwards FRDI - General Meeting (open to all)
(Convention Center)
Evening CARROUSSEL AND COCKTAIL
(First Cavalry Regiment - Brazilian Army)

Oral Comunication
CONGRESS - 11 OF AUGUST - FRIDAY
Period PLANALTO Auditorium AGUAS CLARAS Auditorium
08:00 - 08:30 121a; Hippotherapy facilitates communication and attention in children with autism; BETH L. MACAULEY; USA 049; Equine assisted psychoanalytic psychotherapy; W.H.M. VAN LIESHOUT; The Netherlands
08:30 - 09:00 025; Mozart, my horse and me; FRANCISCO MUÑOZ HINOJOSA; Mexico 052; Memory and self-esteem in Down´s syndrome: does therapeutic riding have any significant effect?; ELISA USELI; Belgium
09:00 - 09:30 032; The effect of therapeutic riding in patients with Menière disease; ALESSANDRA DE TOLEDO CORLATTI; Brasil 060; Horse-riding for handicapped persons: an encounter with nature and with art; ANNA STRUMINSKA; Poland
09:30 - 10:00 051; Special equestrian therapy (with games) for the elderly; MYRIAM SOLANGE PEREIRA BUENO; Brasil 085a; The inclusion / insertion of autism / Asperger syndrome, on the education / re- education program of equotherapy: generalizing the functional autonomy of these children; YLNA OPA NASCIMENTO; Brasil
10:00 - 10:20 COFFEE BREAK
10:20 - 10:50 058a; The importance of the speech-language therapist's work in children with the cerebral palsy in "equoterapia".; ANA PAULA NOBREGA DE MELO NEVES; Brasil 095; Therapeutical riding and its benifts on psychopathology; UTE HESSE; Brasil
10:50 - 11:20 070; "Sit up tall!"; LYNNE MUNRO; England 106; My horse, my family and myself: an assessment through drawings.; ROSSELLA FRASCOLI ; Italy
11:20 - 11:50 072; From passivity to activity and initiative - activity programs (for body awareness, contact and communication) adapted for sessions of hippotherapy.; BARBARA GASIOROWSKA; Poland 125; Children with infantile cerebral paralysis quality of life modification on basis of rehabilitation using method of hippotherapy.; DENISENKOV A.; Russia
11:50 - 12:20 073; Improving the communication aptitudes of children exhibiting underdeveloped speech skills during hippotherapy; JOANNA DZWONKOWSKA ; Poland 117; Therapeutic riding as a tool to improve social interaction in autistic children; VALERIA LERCARI; Uruguay
12:20 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 14:30 074; Basic criteria for evaluation of therapeutic riding in subjects affected by neuromotor disorders: methodology, assessments, results; ANNA PASQUINELLI ; Italy 123; Object relations activation in the process of autistic child´s interaction with the horse; ELANSKAYA V.; Russia
14:30 - 15:00 079; Riding therapy and motor points of the face: active elongations in patient with cerebral palsy; IANA MARIA COSTA DE ALENCAR LIMA; Brasil 124; Hyppotherapy as a corrective method of the space perception in autistic children; SAFUANOVA D.; Russia
15:00 - 15:30 089; Structuring the hippoteraphy space addressed to autistic children treatment - using visual communication based on the TEACCH and PECS method.; FABIANA TEIXEIRA RISKALLA; Brasil 129; A physiotherapist + a horse = Hippotherapy ? A discussion of aspects contributing to the quality of hippotherapy; DOROTHEE DEBUSE; United Kingdom
15:30 - 16:00 092a; A circle of friends; JENNY LEGGATE; United Kingdom 130; Build secure places…look beyond borders - therapy with horses; VERENA BITTMANN; Austria
16:00 - 16:20 COFFEE BREAK
16:20 - 16:50 110a; What is known about equotherapy with word health professionals of the city of Franca, Brasil; ROBERTA GIMENES; Brasil 131; Effect of therapeutic horseback riding on the development of children with autistic syndromes; MARIETTA MARIA ELISABETH SCHULZ; Germany
16:50 - 17:50 POSTER EXHIBITION
18:00 - 20:00 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES MEETING
LATIN AMERICAN GROUP MEETING
Evening CONFRATERNIZATION DINNER - (special payment)
(Club of Brazilian Army - Brasília)

Oral Comunication
CONGRESS - 12 OF AUGUST - SATURDAY
Period PLANALTO Auditorium AGUAS CLARAS Auditorium
09:00 - 09:30 026a; Therapeutic riding in children affected by central deafness; MARIA PIA ONOFRI; Italy 036; Sense therapy for CP children of young age with the assistance of dogs and horses; MAUREEN TAL; Israel
09:30 - 10:00 139; Furthering the concepts of space and time through therapeutic riding; HILDEGARD CAMENZIND; Switzerland 140; Therapeutic effects of horse-riding (hippotherapy) on motor-development of children with cerebral palsy; AMY J. LEE; Korea
10:00 - 10:30 132; Interactions between the therapeutist using the pony as therapeutic tool; MARIE PAULE RAPENNE; France 137; In the beginning, there was attachment; BRIGITTE MARTIN; France
10:30 - 10:50 COFFEE BREAK
10:50 - 11:20 061; Your horse, your friend; MAYA BOSS JACCARD; Brasil -
11:20 - 11:50 086; Equotherapy as an effective motivational factor on the improvement of life's quality of people with special needs.; CATHLEN CUDO; Brasil -
11:50 - 12:20 CLOSING SESSION -
12:20 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 16:00 FRDI - International Council Meeting - Part 2 (Full Members)
(Convention Center)
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES MEETING (if necessary)
LATIN AMERICAN GROUP MEETING (if necessary)



Poster
  • 003b; Therapeutic riding camping (Campamento de equinoterapia); FRANCISCO JAVIER URRA RIVEROS; Chile
  • 006; Equotherapy and the visual deficient; LIANA PIRES SANTOS; Brasil
  • 010b; Riding therapy and security - two secure friends; JOSE MIGUEL MANZO RUIZ; Chile
  • 012b; Comparative electromyographic analysis of lumbar erectors recruitment at stand position and therapeutic riding positions; REBECA DE BARROS SANTOS; Brasil
  • 021b; My friend... The horse; ÁUREA ALEXANDRA CANAS COELHO; Portugal
  • 022; Electromyographic analysis of lumbar erector muscle activity influence in trunk laterality during therapeutic horseback riding; ADRIANA PAGNI PRDIGÃO; Brasil
  • 023; Creating a horse therapy center; HENRIQUE STERNBERG; Brasil
  • 026b; Out-patients and in-patients horse therapy: a global clinical approach; MARIA PIA ONOFRI; Italy
  • 030; The importance of the horse´s image in the therapy; MAYLU BOTTA HAFNER; Brasil
  • 034b; Hippotherapy and its possible influences in the static balance of carriers of down syndrome.; HELOISA BRUNA GRUBITS FREIRE; Brasil
  • 043b; Comparative postural analysis on land and at horseback riding with a cerebral palsy patient; MAYARI TICIANI SAKAKURA; Brasil
  • 050; Gestalt therapy and riding therapy: a friendly relationship; ANA PAULA LUCCHESI LEANDRIN; Brasil
  • 056; The influence of the hippotherapy in the strength of the inhaling muscles in practitioner with Down syndrome - study of case; MARIA CAROLINE ROBACHER; Brasil
  • 058b; The use of the supplementary and/or alternative communication (S.A.C.) in the "equoterapia".; ANA PAULA NOBREGA DE MELO NEVES; Brasil
  • 063; Therapeutic progression in a myelomeningocele case; THAÍS PEZZATO GONÇALVES DE OLIVEIRA; Brasil
  • 068b; The measurement of pressure forces on the contact of a rider`s body and the horse`s back during hippotherapy; TEREZA DVORAKOVA; Czech Republic
  • 071; Ludic equitation - precocious stimulation - improving abilities; SILVIA CRISTINA BALTIERI; Brasil
  • 080; Therapeutic horseback riding: a quantitative comparison of spastic changes in severe quadriplegic children on differents horses.; EMANUELLE CARAMASCHI SILVA; Brasil
  • 083; Cyphosis-scoliosis objective improvement in a patient with brain paralysis on a six month equine therapy treatment; LILIANA BEATRIZ AGUIRRE; Argentina
  • 084; Influence of the hippotherapy with social function, self-care and mobility on patient with cerebral palsy; ANA PAULA MARGARIDO CALDAS; Brasil
  • 092b; Who is my ideal RDA partner?; JENNY LEGGATE; United Kingdom
  • 093; Results from riding therapy on patients with Williams Syndrome and Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome; PAULA GAÊTA; Brasil
  • 094; The effect of psychomotor activities with and without equines in children with Down's syndrome; FERNANDO COPETTI; Brasil
  • 098; The approach: the first step towards the therapeutic riding; CLAUDIA HONDA UENISHI; Brasil
  • 100; Training and breaking in of a typical horse for therapeutic riding; AMAYA PEREIRA; Uruguay
  • 101; Assessment of riding therapy over articular hardness of inferior limbs and walk in a patient with Parkinson´s disease; ANA PAULA GENOVEZZI VIEIRA BASSOLI; Brasil
  • 103; Parents experience of life - a mediating instrument between the family and the aid used in this therapeutic method.; DANIELA PERRI HORTALE; Brasil
  • 104; Measuring the effects of horse riding therapy on hemiplegic patient through GMFM; EDILENE CARDIM DE ALMEIDA; Brasil
  • 105; Dear horse, will you be a good friend of mine? An evaluation sheet.; ANTONELLA ARTUSO e CRISTINA PALAZZOLO; Italy
  • 110; Introducing an equotherapy project: a view of its psychological work; ROBERTA GIMENES; Brasil
  • 115; The importance of the biomechanics analysis of the patterns of the horses's for therapeutic riding.; MARCO ANTÔNIO DE CARVALHO CÂMARA; Brasil
  • 121b; A model program between the university of Tulsa and Rogers State University to offer hippotherapy clinical practicum in speech-language pathology; BETH L. MACAULEY; USA
  • 128; Hippotherapy as support treatment in the improvement of the gait in patient who has ECI the light type spastic hemiplegic related case; VIVIAN PEREIRA REZENDE; Brasil
  • 129; Hippotherapy, an excellent opportunity for motor learning: a discussion of key neuro-motor and psychological factors; DOROTHEE DEBUSE; United Kingdom
  • 141; The Equinetherapy re-significance of life; MARIA CRISTINA GUIMARÃES BRITO; Brasil
  • 308; Therapeutic Riding with babies and toddlers; KAROL HORNACEK; Slovak Republic
  • 426; Early intervention project; SUYENNE FIGUEIREDO BEZERRA DE MENEZES; Brasil



  • Video
  • 026c; From therapeutic to sport riding: a case of double leg amputation; MARIA PIA ONOFRI; Italy
  • 033c; Integrated course of equestrian reeducation: the presentation of a new method; ELEONORA TRANFO; Italy
  • 105; We're not making a team… we are a team.; CRISTINA BARBONETTI ; Italy
  • 121c; Equine-assisted speech therapy session of two year old with autism; BETH L. MACAULEY; USA



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