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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:: J. David Osorio
City:: Northridge
Province, Country:: CA, United States
Type/Breed:: German Shepherd Dog
Date of Birth:: 11/27/1997
Date of Death: 07/15/2008
Sex:: Female
Height:: 30
Weight:: 95
Coat Colour:: black/tan
Eye Colour:: almond

My beautiful Phoenix... I miss you so terribly my dear friend. You were my faithful and loyal companion. You helped me walk through the deeps of life a-walk-to-the-park at a time. You loved the park more than anything in this world and with you in it I came to love it just as much. I hope heaven is for you this huge endless park where you can play with the other dead pets listed here... but only ‘till I get there. Thank you so much for having shared with me your 11 years of precious life. I will always love you mein gutten Hundin. May you run free forever through an infinite green-lawn of grass.