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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:
- Petra Pepping
- City:
- Not Provided
- Province, Country:
- BC, Canada
- Type/Breed:
- Siberian Husky
- Date of Birth:
- Jan 12th, 2002
- Sex:
- Male
- Height:
- 23
- Weight:
- 50
- Coat Colour:
- black & white
- Eye Colour:
- blue
Hi All, My name is Dakota and I am a 10 months old male Siberian Husky. I love to wake up my Mommy & Daddy in the middle of the night with my sing-song or to chase my buddy "Leika" through the house (I also enjoy eating from her bowl of food). When I am not watched by my Mommy I also enjoy chewing on the sneakers that she usually tries to hide from me...
