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Service Dogs and Autistic Children – Pet Tip 253
Dogs help humans in so many ways. They help with companionship, with tasks that they carry out for us and sometimes they help make every day living much easier. Perhaps the best demonstration of this fact is when dogs help people with disabilities. Many of us have seen dogs helping blind people and many have heard of dogs that feel when a seizure in an epileptic person is about to occur and then protect them from injury. Dogs can also help aid autistic children and parents of autistic children in many ways as well. Recent studies suggest that the prevalence of autistic children in Canada may be 1 in 165 children or higher. Therefore, many people may well personally know of an autistic child in their extended family, or know of friends or acquaintances that have an autistic child. So how can dogs help these autistic children?
The National Service Dogs (NSD) organization in Ontario Canada, is one of the best organizations that specifically help train dogs to make the lives of autistic children better. You might be wondering how a service dog can be useful to autistic children
- Owner:
- Julie Hall
- City:
- Thunder Bay
- Province, Country:
- ON, Canada
- Type/Breed:
- Labrador
- Date of Birth:
- april 1 1996
- Sex:
- Female
- Height:
- Not Provided
- Weight:
- 62
- Coat Colour:
- black
- Eye Colour:
- golden brown
Emma found me at the Sarnia humane society one cold december day when i was 15. I adopted her as soon as i saw her and brought her home. Although the first months were from hell as she was a 9month old labrador, we made it through and she is the most important thing in my life these days. We've had our share of termoil (her sock eating days came to an abrupt end when she needed $1000 surgery to remove one) shes gone away to college with me, and now lives in Thunder Bay with me where i got my first job as a Veterinary Technician. She tolerates our kitty Skittles, and her new housemate Molson the rottie. She loves almost everyone she meets even other dogs, she just seems to have issues with dominant females. her favourite toy was a stuffed canadian goose that honked when squeezed but it unfortunatly came to a sad end when Max my parents basset/beagleX ate it on her. She now has an octopus that has replaced it.
