Project R.I.D.E. currently serves over 350 students with disabilities, with another 250 on our waiting list. Our youngest students are 3 and our oldest are in their 60s. They come from Elk Grove, Sacramento, and even as far away as Stockton and the Delta. Below is a partial list of the disabilities they possess:

• Accident Victims
• ADD/ADHD
• Angelman’s Syndrome
• Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders including Asperger’s Syndrome
• Cerebral Palsy
• Craniometaphyseal Dysplasia
• Cru’ de Chat Syndrome
• Developmental Delays
• Down’s Syndrome
• Encephalopathy
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Fragile X Syndrome
• Global Delay
• Hearing Impairment
• Leigh’s Syndrome
• Mental Retardation
• Moebis Syndrome
• Muscular Dystrophy
• PDD (Pervasive Developmental Delays)
• Praeder-Willie Syndrome
• Retts Syndrome
• Seizure Disorders
• Shaken Baby Syndrome
• Soto Syndrome
• Spina Bifida
• Stroke Victims
• Visual Impairment
• Williams Syndrome
• Wolf-Hirshorn Syndrome

Many of our students attend Jessie Baker School, which is a school within the Elk Grove Unified School District that is exclusively for students with special needs. Jessie Baker is located adjacent to our facility.

Students are also referred to us by the Alta California Regional Center, which as of August 1st, 2009 no longer provides funding for students with disabilities so that they can receive the benefits of special therapies, including our program.

Families who were formerly covered by Alta Regional should be aware that they will now have to pay for lessons. If you are a family that was on our waiting list and referred by Alta, please contact us right away to discuss your options.

For those families who are not able to afford the cost of our lessons, we maintain a small Jockey Club endowment that provides scholarship assistance.

If you know someone with a special need or disability who would like to receive the benefits of our program, please contact us and we will place them on our waiting list. If you would like to contribute to our Jockey Club, you may donate to our Jockey Club online or find out about other ways to support Project R.I.D.E..