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- Author's Point of View; Literacy; Common Core standard: 2.2.c.ii; Tug of War
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- Colin, UK - Autist
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- A little girl from Austin
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- Our trip to the Horse Boy Camps in the UK
- Movement Method and Horse Boy Method: my journey
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- MM Training Testimony V. Roberts
- 2018 Student Testimonies 'End of Year Speeches'- Colorado Public School
- Teacher Evaluation- Huge Improvement Because of Implementation of MM
- Movement Method Teacher Nominated for Colorado Department of Education Teacher of the Year 2020
- Media Release: USA, CO, D49: Report on Movement Method "Pioneer's Day"
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- Beth Cerda - Ohio
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- Henri Carew, Northumberland, UK
- Mary - Arizona
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- Nicola - UK
- Horse Boy: Much more than just Autism - Vicky, UK
- Suz - Ontario, Canada
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- 2020, Thailand, Spunky's Story by Gaye Pantrat
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- Janine Pendlebury
- Bernard Sachse - Paralympian and Classical Master (France)
- Alfredo Hernandez - Piaffe and Passage trainer to Steffen Peters & Heather Blitz
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- A puzzle story
- A map in the head
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- No Pressure Learning: How to Test a Child without triggering fight, flight or freeze response
- Maya the Bee
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- On the Rocks - How we use rocks for spelling, math and more
- A Physics Playdate
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- Speediraptor, a Physics Playdate
- Debbie the Beetle
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- GET YOUR NERD ON! There are 10 kinds of people in the world – Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
- The art of joyful exploration
- Where is Woody?
- The magic of the trampoline
- Looking for life - Or the importance of free exploration in nature
- A true relationship - Autistic Teens
- Just because it's cold and snowy it doesn't mean you have to stay inside!
- Jumping for words
- Buckets of Water, Rocks and Fish
- Unschooling
- 221B Baker Street - Learning with Sherlock
- The Owl and the Pussycat - Extract from 'Iris Grace'
- Connected with nature : Why learning does not happen at our kitchen table
- School of the Road - 5000 kilometers across the United States
- Silly Math
- Fall Movement Method Update
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- Horse Boy Learning in action
- Skunk movies
- Exhaust th' Passion!
- Learning through N Line
- He’s just….different
- The power of humor
- Hiking
- The Power of Stories
- A Silent Walk
- A day in the city – an unintentional lesson in the roots of human happiness
- Inspirational
- Temple Grandin speaking at TED about why we need the autistic mind
- Shay - A Beautiful Story...
- Jason McElwain Autistic Basketball Player
- Einstein: Genius...
- John Holt - We destroy the love of learning in children...
- Can’t have the Good Times Without the Bad
- CUNY Neurodiversity Conference
- Autism- A Gift in Your Life- REALLY???
- It Is All Related...
- MM and HB so desperately needed!
- Following my child through a fairy door to a wholehearted life
- Shut Up – Sass in the City
- Words Matter
- Life as we knew it- back from Thailand- sorry, a little longer- but what else do we have to do ;-)
- Playdates & Educational Games
- Movement Method
- Teachers' Experiences
- Duck Duck Goose in Math
- Glow Stick Math
- Avoiding Triggers and "Meltdowns"
- "Eye contact" and other conventions
- Turning a "No Situation" into a "Yes"
- Self- Advocacy/ Different Type of Assessment
- Environment
- Escaping into Books: Environment
- Vocabulary Through Movement and Joy
- Implementation: First Steps
- You Never Know Which Key Opens the Wardrobe to Narnia
- Self Compassion- Yes, You Need It!
- The Way it all Began - Movement Method in the Classroom
- Positive Triggers and Changing the Classroom Environment
- Children's Happiness Outweighs Frustration
- Following the Child - Giovanni's Success Story
- Brain at Peace
- Movement Method the Future of Education- Alignment with Conceptual and Inquiry Based Learning
- Impactful Benefits from Movement Method for Paraprofessionals
- The Heart in the Perfect Place: Paraprofessional and Teacher Training
- New Year’s Resolution: Stay Focused on What Matters
- Movement Method in schools: a powerful impact on students and teachers
- Dream Whispers Do Come True
- Hotspot for Education Takes on MM
- Follow the Child- Can Save Lives (caution- difficult topic)
- From Nightmare to Yellow Brick Road
- Escape to Relaxation
- 2018 Tribe Day- Germany
- Unbelievable and Unexpected Dream Whispers
- 2019 MMMMT (Monarch Mountain Movement Method Trainings)
- MM- A Change Schools Have Been Waiting For
- Reconnect- Follow Your Teen
- "This Little Light of Mine" 2018/2019 Mammutschule Ahlen, Germany
- Prestigious Frankfurt International School inspired by Movement Method
- 120 Fifth Grade Students- Experiencing Perspective Change
- Research Study Movement Method- Dissertation Candidate- Call for Action
- Breakthrough
- Saying Good Bye
- Eden Project and Germany- New Beginnings for MM Jan 2020
- Movement in Mathematics Instruction by Lauren Crocker
- Unsichere Zeiten: Unbeantwortete Fragen - Die Bewegungsmethode „Movement Method", bietet Lösungen
- Uncertain Times: Unanswered Questions- Movement Method offers Solutions
- Teachers' Experiences
- Equine Therapists
- Horse Boy Events
- Photo Blog - Piaffe into Levade
- The Kids are Alright Festival
- Horse Boy/RDA demos...
- The Texas Stars hockey team support autism
- The Autism Trust
- An exciting week for The Horse Boy USA!
- Clinic at Rancho del Lago
- Centex Horse Festival - A Medieval Weekend - Part 2
- Madison, WI - Lifestriders' Grand Opening Party
- Horse Boy Method Training in Italy
- Clue's latest trick!
- Horses to Heal - Horses to Harm
- Dancing in the rain
- Wildlife in Texas
- Charreada (Mexican Rodeo), Elgin TX
- Horse Boy Horse - Breac
- Maggie's Hope - Fundraiser
- North Carolina Tour 2011
- Horse Boy Horse - Spirit goes downtown
- Maggie's Hope - The Event
- The first ever Horse Boy foal...
- Houston Abilities Expo - August 26th - 27th 2011
- Hores Boy Horse - Eckie
- A New Home for Rowan's Ladies - Part 1
- Bastrop Fires - HELP URGENTLY NEEDED!!!
- A very strange week of wildfires...
- Git Smart Educational Event featuring The Horse Boy Method
- Horse Boy Camp, Wimberley Texas
- Der Pferdejunge erscheint auf DVD in Deutsch: 18. November 2011
- Community Outreach
- Photo Blog: Bucephalus' first day of back-riding - with Lance
- First Impressions
- Horse Boy Camp March 2014
- Photo Blog: Horse Boy Fest April 2014
- Photo Blog: Betsy
- Photo Blog: Bubbles meets Bilbo
- Photo Blog - Learning from the Valencas Day 2 - Pillars, Baucher, 'Fantasy' & more CAPRIOLE
- Lysts on the Lake - A Medieval Weekend - Part 1
- Lysts on Lake - A Medieval Weekend - Part 3
- Horse Boy goes to South America
- Preparing for USAFA Training- If You Need a Little Smile
- Clue’s News: 4th of July: Biggest Small Town Parade in the United States
- Our first ever workshop in magical Norway
- The first Horse Boy 1 workshop at Stal Tilburgs, Bergeijk, The Netherlands
- Workshop week in Curaçao: Behind those faces & new destinations
- Working Students
- From our Practitioners & Tribes
- From the Caribbean to Cattle Country
- Square Peg 2015 update
- Radical Acceptance - written by Tessa Biggs
- Square Peg Update- 09/21/15
- Square Peg Ranch- October (2014) Overview!
- Square Peg Ranch- November (2014) Overview!
- A Day of Horse Boy Learning
- A place where everyone fits in
- Horse Boy Method Not Just for Autism - Wounded Warrior Story
- Tribe- You Can't do it All Alone
- Equine Partners Appreciated
- Veterans at USAFA supported by Horse Boy (ATHENA) Tribe
- Tribute to an Outstanding Equine Partner
- In Memoriam Naranjero (Reno) 1995 - March 2nd, 2018
- Joell Dunlap-Exceptional 'Dressage Today' Article
- Clue’s News: Veteran Meets Veteran
- Clue’s News, May 2018: Breaking the Spell
- Clue's News, June: Graduation
- Raven’s Guardians BBQ Launch Party with The Horse Boy Foundation
- A Hidden Narnia-Farewell to Nova Scotia And your Sea Bound Coast
- Julian and His Way into Life- Practitioner Experience
- Raven's Guardians Halloween in Wonderland
- Raven's Guardians: Meet the members of Knights of the Grail!
- Flatulate and the Power Thereof (if you need a little giggle)
- New Trails Still Growing Strong!
- Changes
- Aircraft Carrier and Long Lining
- Horse Boy Trainers- Life-Long Learners
- The first-ever Hay Bale Ball in Aspen, Colorado
- Off to Thailand it Goes
- Tears for our Dude Horses- Support Needed!
- The Company We Keep
- It could be wrong, but.....
- How is Thailand? December 2019
- 2019 Merry Christmas Playdate in Thailand! Just in time for your holiday enjoyment read ;-)
- Movement Method and Horse Boy Method offer answers; Mental Health Crisis in Children and Adolescents caused by COVID-19
- Training tips from our Mentors
- From our dressage mentors: What is all for anyway?
- From our Mentors: Dressage as Yoga for the horse
- Shoulder in is the aspirin of riding - there is almost no problem it doesn’t fix.
- From our dressage mentors: The Counter Canter
- From our dressage mentors: When teaching something new, do it from the ground.
- From our dressage mentors: The outside rein controls everything
- From our dressage mentors: Each horse needs to be taught differently even though the training scale remains the same. Confusingly ambiguous? Read on...
- From our dressage mentors: Pas de Trois
- Photo Blog - Learning from the Valencas - Day 1 - The System (Lunging, In Hand - basic, piaffe, capriole - Ridden)
- From our Dressage mentors: The Observational and Directional seat
- From our Dressage Mentors: Inside leg to outside rein
- From our Dressage Mentors: Long and low to self-carriage?
- From our dressage mentors: lunging plus in-hand work = the ridden work
- Father and Son- Magical Reconnect
- Volunteers, The Soul of a Program- USAFA Training Oct. 2018
- Testimonial "Gitti's work"
- Forgiveness…..No Matter What
- 2019 Japan: May not have the words to share my experience Understand me still
- Hope Giving Light at a Seemingly Endless Tunnel
- Equine-Assisted Intervention, Learning, Therapy
- Research team from the German Bundeswehr explores ATHENA
- Horse Boy Events
- Rupert's Blog
- Ru's Autism Tip
- Ru’s Weekly Autism Tip: Celebrate the Gifts of Autism on World Autism Day
- Ru's weekly Autism Tip: Remember what Autism actually means
- Ru's weekly autism tip: start where the child is not where you want them to be
- Ru's weekly autism tip: Make it the family business
- Ru’s Autism Tip: Don’t demand their attention!
- Ru's weekly Autism Tip: Don't let the bastards grind you down.
- Ru's weekly autism tip: One person's obsession is another person's expertise - and expertise is livelihood
- Ru's weekly autism tip: Self-compassion for autism parents and care-givers
- Ru's weekly autism tip it's all in the application - or rather, the ethics are as important as the steps...
- Ru's weekly (THANKSGIVING) autism tip: Let’s give thanks for autism.
- Ru's weekly autism tip: the science of Horse Boy, the science of joy
- Ru's weekly autism tip: The power of story
- Ru's weekly autism tip - Happy New Year
- Ru's weekly autism tip: World Autism Day
- Ru's weekly autism tip: food is mood: Taurus and the vagal nerve
- Ru's weekly autism tip: Let autism give you your own childhood back
- Ru's weekly autism tip: don't try it alone! build your Tribe!
- Ru's weekly Autism tip: ENVIRONMENT , ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT!
- Ru's weekly autism tip: the bad environment makeover
- Ru's Weekly Autism Tips Your friend: The Vestibular System
- Ru's Weekly Autism Tip: Your friend Purkinje - the brain cell with the funny name
- Ru's Weekly Autism Tip Your Friend: Oxytocin
- Ru's weekly autism tip The Gifts of Autism
- Ru's Weekly Autism Tip: Protein! Your anti-tantrum friend...
- Ru’s Weekly Autism Tip: Your Friend: BDNF
- Ru’s Weekly Autism Tip: Your Friend: Self Compassion
- Ru’s Weekly Autism Tip: Thy Servant – the Dog (and other small animals)
- Ru's Weekly Autism Tip: Stimming is Good
- Ru's Weekly Autism Tip: Forewarned is forearmed - know the sensory issues before you try to connect!
- Ru's Weekly Autism Tip: Create an Environment Within an Environment
- Ru's Weekly Autism Tip: Get Mentored by Autists Themselves
- Ru’s Weekly Autism Tip: Speech and How to Get There
- Ru’s Autism Tips: Potty Training: Will it Ever Happen?
- Ru's world
- Rowan (Scub) Updates
- The “Journalist” Mind
- Endangerous: Tracking Wolves
- Scubby Kitty
- Rowan at Championship of Spanish Horses (IALHA) 2010
- New video clips of Rowan riding (Winter 2010)
- Rowan learns about the human body!
- Rowan the Zoo Keeper
- Rowan flies to England! (Spring 2011)
- Rowan's tour of England (Spring 2011)
- Angelica and her four imaginary animal friends...
- Rowan's guide to multiplication
- How school can be fun...
- The Fireside Girls
- A weekend with Scub
- DJ Scub
- Scotts Falls - a new location for fish school
- Schlitterbahn Horse Boy Style
- Rowan and Rupert Rock Out
- Rowan the Musician
- Rowan's New Hobby - Golf
- Turtle Power
- We need musical instruments!!!!
- Rowan flies to London - Days 1 & 2 of his trip to the UK
- Rowan and the Zoo
- Scub's Summer in UK: Festival Fever
- Scub's Summer in UK: The Sound of Scubby
- Scub's Summer in the UK - Bird Boy
- Scub's Summer in the UK - A Knight in Shining Armour
- A Typical Day at Scubby School
- Teaching Rowan
- Suzie the Python
- A Sunset Walk
- How Rowan is learning at the moment...
- Cabela's - Rowan the Hunter
- The Atmosphere
- Behind the Scenes at the Dallas Zoo
- The YMCA
- The Power of Video Games
- Rowan the Intrepid Explorer
- Rowan discovers self-compassion
- Wild Weather
- The History of Toilets
- Rowan's Amazing Cook Book
- From play dough plays to puzzles – creative learning at its’ best
- Surf and Turf
- The San Marcos River
- A Musical Boy
- Geometry
- Dexter's Science Lab (NO Dee Dee Allowed)
- Teaching Rowan about the relationship between speed, distance and time
- Brazos the Chameleon
- Road Construction
- The Wheelbarrow Ride
- No Pressure Learning
- The Themed Week
- The New Trails Zoo and Wildlife Sanctuary (aka Scub’s Zoo)
- Who is Agent X
- Welcome to Endangerous
- Big Cat Rescue
- Rowan's First Poem
- N Line Traffic Maintenance
- Scub: Help Ma bring her sexy back ! Week 1
- Scub: Help Ma bring her sexy back ! Week 2
- Ru's Autism Tip
- NTLS News
- Graduation Day for Debra Michaels
- Rupert Isaacson & NTLS team in Germany
- Graduation Day for Bianca Rimbach
- Graduation Day for Bianca Rimbach January 2019
- Graduation Day for Gitti Berkhoff January 2019
- Graduation Day for Gitti Berkhoff March 2019
- Graduation Day for Ellen Schuringa March 2019
- Graduation Day for Ellen Schuringa July 2019
- Graduation Day for Sandra Schmid August 2019
- Presentation of new study in Horse Boy Method
- Meet our new Trainer Ellen Schuringa
- Tribe Day 2019 The Netherlands & Belgium
- Graduation Day for Rebecca Chatelain November 2019
- Graduation Day for Pat Pantrat April 2020
- Graduation Day for Chantal van Koert April 2020
- Graduation Day of Sukhumalee Jane Maneesai April 2020
- Graduation Day Movement Method Mentor for Chantal van Koert April 2020
- Graduation Day for Guin Pam Saksri April 2020
- Graduation Day for Cassie Jensen Movement Method Mentor, May 2020
- Graduation Day for Gitti Berkhoff 2 STAR HB Practitioner, May 2020
- Graduation Day for 1STAR Chantal van Koert May 2020
- Graduation Day for 1 Star Guin Pam Saksri May 2020
- Graduation Day for Premrudee Gaye Pantrat Basic Movement Method Mentor
- Graduation Day for 2 STAR Practitioner Chantal van Koert July 2020
- Videos
- Intro video
- Working Student at Horse Boy - New Trails Learning Systems
- A Mom's Story - Leslie Part 1
- A Mom's Story - Leslie Part 2
- Movement Method Intro - An approach to brain building and kinetic learning
- Kids Must Move Intro
- CNN Dr. Sanjay Gupta Talks With Rupert Isaacson
- FEI Equestrian Snapshots – Horse Boy
- Horse Boy Camps on BBC
- Thinking Mom's Revolution: Thinking Out Loud - Interview With Rupert Isaacson
- Rupert Isaacson at Arizona Autism United's 2014 conference
- Rupert Isaacson at KulturCity Conference
- Rupert Isaacson: The Long Ride Home Synopsis
- "The Long Ride Home" raising funds for autism
- Rupert Isaacson: The Long Ride Home - How the story set us free
- Rupert Isaacson reading The Long Ride Home: The Struggle 237 views 2 0 SHARE
- Rupert Isaacson reading The Long Ride Home: Rowan and Betsy meet Part 1
- Rupert Isaacson reading The Long Ride Home: Rowan and Betsy Part 2
- Rupert Isaacson reading The Long Ride Home: African Healers
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- Autism uncovered: Brains of people with the condition work in 'idiosyncratic' ways, claims groundbreaking study
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- The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius, and Autism by Kristine Barnett
- Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet
- The Thinking Moms' Revolution: Autism beyond the Spectrum: Inspiring True Stories from Parents Fighting to Rescue Their Children
- Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism by Ron Suskind
- The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida
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