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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:
- Michelle Martin
- City:
- Nanaimo
- Province, Country:
- BC, Canada
- Type/Breed:
- silver-shaded persian
- Date of Birth:
- @1996 or 1997
- Date of Death
- June 28, 2009
- Sex:
- Male
- Height:
- Not Provided
- Weight:
- 13
- Coat Colour:
- white with soft silver/grey shadings
- Eye Colour:
- pure gold
Tristan, I am writing this tribute to you my darling, to tell you how much I love you and desperately miss you....You are my ultimate best friend, my soul-mate, my angel...... you mean everything to me....and you always will. I think about you soooo much, and cannot believe that you were taken from our lives so unexpectedly and suddenly.....I still wake up every day in disbelief that you're not downstairs waiting for your favourite Fancy Feast chicken and liver breakfast. But I know that you are with me, Katrina and Georgey ...your beautiful spirit.... you are in our hearts forever....and I look forward to the day when we are re-united, my lovely, loving, precious boy.....until then, keep sending the rainbows and the twinkles..... love, your Michelle (Mow-ow), and Katrina, Sam, George, and all the other people and kitties who love you (there are lots of us!) xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
