Welcome to the CATRA Page General Information Center.

We hope that the articles here will be of some interest and edification to you.  We are always interested in submissions!  Mail them to editor@catra.net or, if you don't have them in electronic form, snail mail them to: CATRA Page, PO Box 339, Grantville, PA 17028-0339.

• http://www.narha.org/article.html is the articles page at the NARHA site.  They have articles reprinted from Strides magazine, which is the official NARHA printed magazine.  The articles include information about riding for ADD, Autism, Down Syndrome, and Multiple Sclerosis plus several others.
• RideAble Information Pages - The information pages of RideAble, a therapeutic riding program in Eugene Oregon.
• Country Barn Newsletter article by Heather Park, OTS.  This is a link to an article at http://www.countrybarn.com
• Horseback Riding as Therapy by Octavia J. Brown
• Equine Facilitated Therapy by Ben Nolt Jr.
• Specific effects of Therapeutic Horseback Riding by Christina Rae Anfenson
• Therapeutic riding overview by Jennifer A. Bream and William Q. Spangler Jr.
• Therapeutic Riding as a University Curriculum by Ben H. Nolt, Jr., AAS, Octavia J. Brown, MEd, Jan Spink, MA, and Jean M.Tebay, MS
• Economic Impact of the Horse Industry upon Pennsylvania (and other areas...) Paraphrased from The Economic Impact Study of the Equine Industry in Pennsylvania as used in a slide presentation by Ben Nolt to the PA Department of Agriculture - Animal Health and Diagnostic Committee
• Guidelines for THR Programs prepared by Ben H. Nolt, Jr.
  Just about everything you want to know about starting and running a program. Appendices contain forms vital in the bureaucratic nightmare we call America.
• An article by Carol O'Connor on the development of Therapeutic Horseback Riding.