How Animals Can Help Disabled People 🦮🐈🐎

Many of us love our pets like a member of a family. 

Imagine if your pet is trained to save your life? Or even just to keep you safe. 

That is how important service animals are to people with disabilities. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Research and references that informed this episode: 

How animals lend a helping paw to people with disabilities

What is an Assistance Dog?

What jobs can assistance dogs do?

How Can Animals Help Those With Health Issues & Disabilities?

Why animals are so important when working with people with disabilities

Psychiatric Assistance Dog Use for People Living With Mental Health Disorders

Recognizing the value of assistance dogs in society

‘More people talk to you when you have a dog’ – dogs as catalysts for social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities

A survey of the impact of owning a service dog on quality of life for individuals with physical and hearing disability: a pilot study

Invisible disabilities, visible Service Dogs: the discrimination of Service Dog handlers

 The impact of service dogs on children, youth and their families: A systematic review 2021

If you have experienced discrimination with your service animal, there are links below to support you:

Australian Human Rights Commission
www.humanrights.gov.au/about/contact-us – (02) 9284 9600
Attorney General’s Department
www.ag.gov.au/About/Pages/Contactus.aspx – (02) 6141 6666
NEW SOUTH WALES – New South Wales Public Service Commission
www.psc.nsw.gov.au/contact-us – (02) 9272 6000
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY – Australian Capital Territory Human Rights Commission
www.hrc.act.gov.au/contact-us – (02) 6205 2222
QUEENSLAND – Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland
https://www.qhrc.qld.gov.au/contactus – 1300 130 670 (statewide)
NORTHERN TERRITORY – Northern Territory Anti Discrimination Commission
https://adc.nt.gov.au/contacts.html – 1800 813 846
TASMANIA – Equal Opportunity Tasmania
www.equalopportunity.tas.gov.au/contact_us – 1300 305 062
VICTORIA – Victorian Equal Opportunities & Human Rights Commission
www.humanrightscommission.vic.gov.au/home/about-us/contact-us – 1300 292 153
SOUTH AUSTRALIA – South Australian Equal Opportunity Commission
www.eoc.sa.gov.au/contact – (08) 8207 1977
WESTERN AUSTRALIA – Western Australia Equal Opportunities Commission
http://www.eoc.wa.gov.au/contact-us – (08) 9216 3900

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