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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:
- Susan Shoop
- City:
- Colchester
- Province, Country:
- CT, USA
- Type/Breed:
- Cocker Spaniel
- Date of Birth:
- June 27 1992
- Sex:
- Female
- Height:
- 12
- Weight:
- 20
- Coat Colour:
- black
- Eye Colour:
- Not Provided
When it comes to thunderstorms, I am the biggest chicken there ever was, I quiver and quake, and tremble in fear. I hate flash lightsand flash cameras, so having my picture taken is not one of my thrills. I'm 12 yrs old now, so I'm "retired", I spend most of my time sleeping on the couch, watching my younger brat sister, KayCee, make a fool of herself. She tries to get me to chase her, but I know she will give up sooner if I pretend to be asleep. I love to eat almost anything, I watch the kitchen floor carefully making sure anything that drops is mine. My favourite toy is an old old rope bone, which I have chewed down to only a knot from one end, it's dirty, smelly and gross, I love it! I have thick, curly black hair, which makes frequent grooming and bathing a must, I'm not too fond of those procedures either!
