For the past 17 years, special needs children have been taught to walk, canter, and trot at Lovelane, a therapeutic horseback riding center west of Boston. In that time, not only have programs like Lovelane grown exponentially, but the science behind hippotherapy has grown as well. Bill Littlefield meets with the children, therapists, and horses that help cowboys and cowgirls walk and–sometimes–talk.

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