International Assistance Dog Week
August 4-10, 2019 is International Assistance Dog Week (IADW)!
IADW was created to recognize all the devoted, hardworking assistance dogs helping individuals mitigate their disability related limitations. The goals of IADW are to:
Recognize and honor assistance dogsRaise awareness and educate the public about assistance dogsHonor puppy raisers and trainersRecognize heroic deeds performed by assistance dogs in our communities
During this week I would like to take the time to go over Assistance dogs titles, jobs, and rights under the law.
Service DogsService animals are defined as dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities. Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during an anx…
IADW was created to recognize all the devoted, hardworking assistance dogs helping individuals mitigate their disability related limitations. The goals of IADW are to:
Recognize and honor assistance dogsRaise awareness and educate the public about assistance dogsHonor puppy raisers and trainersRecognize heroic deeds performed by assistance dogs in our communities
During this week I would like to take the time to go over Assistance dogs titles, jobs, and rights under the law.
Service DogsService animals are defined as dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities. Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during an anx…
