Solving The Puzzle: Service Dogs For Children Along The Autism Spectrum
<span class="excerpt_part">...alongside a <strong>com</strong>mitted parent(s) or caregiver as handler, could harness and lead the way for a better quality of life for famili<strong>es, com</strong>muniti<strong>es,</strong> and children along the autism spectrum.…
Ten Ways to be a Better Service Dog Team in 2023
<span class="excerpt_part">...to train for 3-5 minut<strong>es</strong> with a 15-20 minute break. This coincid<strong>es</strong> nicely with television programing. Consi<strong>der</strong> training during <strong>com</strong>mercial breaks. When a new skill is mastered at home,…
Uber and Lyft: A Service Dog Partner’s Guide
<span class="excerpt_part">...are Deaf or Hard of Hearing- Uber offers visible and vibrating alerts in app and they continue to do updat<strong>es</strong> as necessary. For Those Who Have Ambulatory Disabiliti<strong>es-</strong> UberWAV…
How Can Hearing Dogs Help Diabetics?
<span class="excerpt_part">Type 2 Diabet<strong>es</strong> afflicts nearly 30 million people in the United Stat<strong>es.</strong> Few people realize that ther<strong>e’s</strong> an <strong>und</strong>er-reported <strong>com</strong>plication of this irreversible disease – loss of hearing. As…
Ten Ways to be a Better Service Dog Team in 2016
<span class="excerpt_part">...Assistance Dog. Record your training on video — <strong>es</strong>pecially your dog <strong>com</strong>pleting the Public Access Test. Most <strong>wireless</strong> phon<strong>es</strong> can make this easier than ever before! Create a list…
Socializing Service Dogs in Training: 100+ Things to Include
<span class="excerpt_part">...Equipment Soda/Vending Machine (money in, heavy thing falling) [/one_half] [one_half_last] People Babi<strong>es</strong> Toddlers Pre-Teens Teens Young Adults Men of All Siz<strong>es</strong> Women of All Siz<strong>es</strong> People of all Rac<strong>es</strong>…
The United States Service Dog Registry is on Superman’s Resource List
<span class="excerpt_part">...Resource Center List. The foundation promot<strong>es</strong> the health and well-being of people living with a spinal cord injury, mobility impairment and paralysis by providing <strong>com</strong>prehensive information, resourc<strong>es</strong> and referral…
10 Reasons to Donate to a Service Dog Organization this Holiday Season
<span class="excerpt_part">...into their <strong>Com</strong>munity Gillet and Weldrick (2014), fo<strong>und</strong> that service dogs partnered with veterans helped to reintegrate them back into their <strong>com</strong>munity, by providing them with a secure base.…
Military Working Dogs Evacuated from Afghanistan Amidst Chaos
<span class="excerpt_part">Military Working Dogs (MWDs) dogs belonging to members of United Stat<strong>es</strong> forc<strong>es</strong> are being evacuated from Afghanistan. The MWDs and their handlers waited to be picked up on the…
What is a Service Dog?
<span class="excerpt_part">...passing day, her<strong>e’s</strong> a list of some of the more <strong>com</strong>mon typ<strong>es</strong> of Service Dogs: Visual Assistance Dogs <strong>(Com</strong>monly called “guide dogs,” “seeing eye dogs,” or “lea<strong>der</strong> dogs,” but…