{"id":62500,"date":"2025-04-30T08:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T08:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/62500\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T08:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T08:57:15","slug":"one-equine-trust-how-a-shetland-pony-is-helping-transform-the-life-of-young-co-down-boy-with-rare-genetic-disorder-kat6a-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/62500\/","title":{"rendered":"One Equine Trust: How a Shetland pony is helping transform the life of young Co Down boy\u00a0with rare genetic disorder KAT6A syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Three-year-old with KAT6A Syndrome needs therapy sessions, including some with a Shetland pony\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leo leading Amy for a walk, assisted by Cathy O\u2019Reilly (left) from Mencap and One Equine Trust Practitioner Kathryn Morton (right).\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/55964fe7-2875-4f8f-b876-0af4b72f77b1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Leo leading Amy for a walk, assisted by Cathy O\u2019Reilly (left) from Mencap and One Equine Trust Practitioner Kathryn Morton (right).<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Little Leo Moley from Co Down needs multiple support therapies due to a rare genetic disorder, but his family never imagined that a Shetland pony would become part of his weekly therapeutic routine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The sessions are part of a National Lottery-funded project, run by One Equine Trust, which brings Shetland ponies and trained practitioners to the Mencap NI centre in Belfast. Working with the ponies improves the skills and confidence of young children with learning disabilities or developmental delays, including three-year-old Leo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-year-old with KAT6A Syndrome needs therapy sessions, including some with a Shetland pony Leo leading Amy for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3846],"tags":[2378,1384,267,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-62500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-down-news","10":"tag-genetics","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114426088222446807","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}