What is an assistance dog?

Any animal/dog individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of a person with a disability. This can include guiding a person with a visual impairment, alerting a person with a hearing impairment to the presence of people or sounds, pulling a wheelchair, alerting a person with a seizure disorder to an oncoming seizure, retrieving dropped items, etc.

Assistance Dogs help people to overcome the limitations of their disabilities and the barriers in their environments.These specially trained dogs are called “Assistance dogs” in Australia, and “Service Dogs” in America.