Therapy Dog for Adam
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An autism therapy dog's main function is to help people emotionally, and act as constant companions to children with autism to help them improve social interactions and relationships, expand verbal and non-verbal communication, teach life skills, increase interest in activities and decrease stress within the family.
Therapy dogs use their social instincts and learned social skills to bring people emotional benefits and sensory interventions. Where many families find there is limited, often unsatisfactory help for their autistic child (or young adult), the successful use of therapy dogs provides them with much-needed and immediate therapeutic answers. Dogs love patterns, structure, repetition, and sequences, which works naturally well with an autistic mind.
The presence of a therapy dog will motivate Adam to join others and increase focus. The therapy dog will also attract his attention and help divert attention away from negative behaviour.
A therapy dog will be taught to respond to Adam going into meltdown by licking and leaning on him, calming and soothing him with kindness.
A therapy dog is taught to play a number of games that assist a healthy daily ‘sensory diet.’ The games promote deep pressure, proprioception, vestibular, fine motor skills, and speech activities. Examples include wrestling, Hide and Seek, Tug of War, massage, and ‘High 5.’
A therapy dog is taught to lean and lie over the children, applying deep pressure to sooth anxieties. This same technique can also help achieve more restful and better quality sleep.
A therapy dog requires loving care, and so it can promote positive feelings of love and nurture from Adam. These canines are taught to enjoy being touched, cuddled, and given huge, tight squeezes from children.
Once sensory issues are reduced by working with the therapy dog, Adam has a chance to develop further skills which may have been difficult for him to achieve.
Adam has started to feel "different", and it is affecting his self-esteem, one of the most satisfying benefits of a therapy dog is the dog’s ability to bond quickly with a child. In doing so, the child makes a friend, and the dog will start to fill the void or feelings of loneliness without judging.
Having a therapy dog will absolutely, with no doubt improve his quality of life, health and the connection with the world.
Therapy dogs are specifically trained for the client, and require extensive training, as does the client in handling their new best friend! $35,000 is the cost of the 2 year program, as well as the Adam's new best friend.
We would love if you could support Adam in getting his new best friend, a companion that he will have 24/7, who will be non-judgemental and accept him just the way he is meant to be!
Therapy dogs use their social instincts and learned social skills to bring people emotional benefits and sensory interventions. Where many families find there is limited, often unsatisfactory help for their autistic child (or young adult), the successful use of therapy dogs provides them with much-needed and immediate therapeutic answers. Dogs love patterns, structure, repetition, and sequences, which works naturally well with an autistic mind.
The presence of a therapy dog will motivate Adam to join others and increase focus. The therapy dog will also attract his attention and help divert attention away from negative behaviour.
A therapy dog will be taught to respond to Adam going into meltdown by licking and leaning on him, calming and soothing him with kindness.
A therapy dog is taught to play a number of games that assist a healthy daily ‘sensory diet.’ The games promote deep pressure, proprioception, vestibular, fine motor skills, and speech activities. Examples include wrestling, Hide and Seek, Tug of War, massage, and ‘High 5.’
A therapy dog is taught to lean and lie over the children, applying deep pressure to sooth anxieties. This same technique can also help achieve more restful and better quality sleep.
A therapy dog requires loving care, and so it can promote positive feelings of love and nurture from Adam. These canines are taught to enjoy being touched, cuddled, and given huge, tight squeezes from children.
Once sensory issues are reduced by working with the therapy dog, Adam has a chance to develop further skills which may have been difficult for him to achieve.
Adam has started to feel "different", and it is affecting his self-esteem, one of the most satisfying benefits of a therapy dog is the dog’s ability to bond quickly with a child. In doing so, the child makes a friend, and the dog will start to fill the void or feelings of loneliness without judging.
Having a therapy dog will absolutely, with no doubt improve his quality of life, health and the connection with the world.
Therapy dogs are specifically trained for the client, and require extensive training, as does the client in handling their new best friend! $35,000 is the cost of the 2 year program, as well as the Adam's new best friend.
We would love if you could support Adam in getting his new best friend, a companion that he will have 24/7, who will be non-judgemental and accept him just the way he is meant to be!
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Jessica Nicole
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Hillsdale NSW
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