William, who is nearly six years old, is one of more than 100 Central Indiana children with special needs who receives physical and occupational therapies on horseback at The Children\u2019s TherAplay Foundation.<\/p>\n
He and his occupational therapist Leah had been working so hard on tying shoelaces in\u00a0occupational therapy<\/a>, but they\u2019d reached a plateau, that is until Meyer Shank Racing\u2019s Indianapolis 500 driver Jack Harvey entered the picture.<\/p>\n As William and Jack spent time together in the May 8 Children\u2019s TherAplay\u00a0#Horsepower500<\/a>, a tricycle race between the Indy 500 drivers to help raise funds and awareness for Children\u2019s TherAplay, they talked about tying shoelaces: how fun it is, how helpful, how Jack uses this very same skill. And that really meant something to William.<\/p>\n When he came for occupational therapy the next day, William sat right down and tied his shoelaces, almost completely by himself, for the very first time in his life!!! William\u2019s mother Emily noted, \u201cMy four kids now\u00a0routinely break\u00a0into a \u2018JACK HAR-VEY!!\u2019 chant as we shop for groceries, or drive to\u00a0practice.\u201d<\/p>\n In celebration of William\u2019s accomplishment, Meyer Shank Racing and Jack Harvey will host William at the Speedway for a quick photo and interview opportunity at the IMS Pagoda Plaza, where Jack and William will both tie their shoelaces on the historic yard of bricks.<\/p>\n ABOUT THE CHILDREN\u2019S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION<\/p>\n The Children\u2019s TherAplay Foundation is one of the few clinics in the country dedicated to providing physical and occupational therapies on horseback for children with special needs. Their therapists combine a sensory-rich, child-centered clinic with hippotherapy \u2013 the movement of horses \u2013 to provide carefully graded motor, sensory, and neurological input.<\/p>\n Children\u2019s TherAplay provides more than 700 one-on-one treatments each month for Central Indiana children 18 months \u2013 13 years with diagnoses such as cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorders, developmental delay, traumatic brain injury, and congenital abnormalities.<\/p>\n Each hour of treatment costs Children\u2019s TherAplay $183 but the average insurance reimbursement is only $101. Contributions, like those raised through #Horsepower500, help close that $82-per-treatment gap, ensuring that children with special needs will continue to have access to these life-changing therapies. For more information on Children\u2019s TherAplay, please visit\u00a0www.childrenstheraplay.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" William, who is nearly six years old, is one of more than 100 Central Indiana children with special needs who receives physical and occupational therapies on [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-meyer-shank-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}