What Is An Assisted Skills Service Dog?
This is a partnership in which the caregiver is the one who becomes responsible for the service dog’s emotional well-being and care. The caregiver learns how to work with the service dog and how to facilitate interactions between the service dog and a severely disabled adult or a child with a disability, affording a disabled loved one the opportunity to experience the benefits of having a service dog. Generally the dog must be exceptional and the training takes as long, if not longer, than it does for the more traditional kind of partnership. However, we have seen such remarkable benefits in prior placements we’ve made, we believe this kind of placement is every bit as worthwhile as the traditional type.
