Dogs have been trained for ages to support individuals with specific needs. The service dog program is a program started by Congress in 1983 to help certain people with disabilities. Congress made it easier for people with certain disabilities to get service dogs, and since then the service dog program has grown. Today the program provides hundreds of animals a year to disabled people all over the country.
There are many people who believe that service dogs should be trained to assist people who are deaf or visually impaired, and the assistance dogs are called deaf-dog service dogs. The dogs must pass certain tests in order to be considered as dogs that assist people with disabilities.
So you wonder if your dog can be a service dog for a person who is deaf, or you have a question about your dog? No worries, they have a very good chance to become one. There are many agencies that will train your dog for you, and those that train dogs for people who are deaf or have disabilities are called canine training agencies. Those that help deaf people have multiple hearing dogs are called deaf-dog training agencies.
They have services for people with disabilities all over the country. They do not usually have their own dogs trained to be service dogs. They don’t have any formal qualifications, they are not part of any group that trains service dogs, and they’re not a qualified organization that gives you the dog you need to get one for your family. All they will do is provide you a dog for your disability and put your family on their waiting list.
Then there are the pet owners who call themselves disability resource centers. These are people who will provide dogs to people who need assistance. Most of the time, they don’t train the dogs to be service dogs, but they’re there to help the person when they need a dog for someone in their family. They would just put you on their waiting list.
There are organizations out there that give you a dog and then put you on their waiting list for you to get one for your disabled family member. But those dogs are not trained to be service dogs. If you’re interested in learning more about getting a dog for your disability, or your children, or your parent, you have to go to the website that has all the information on a dog for your disabled relative.
