Service and Therapy Dogs in American Society: Science, Law and the Evolution of Canine Caregivers
This book is not only fascinating, provocative and comprehensive, but it offers the reader an entirely new and welcome perspective on the roles that dogs can play in the lives of persons with disabilities and on the laws that govern those relationships. It is masterful. --Professor Michael L. Perlin - Director, Online Mental Disability Law Program, New York Law SchoolBound to become the standard on the uses and laws of therapy and service dogs, the discussion of the benefits of dogs as a therapeutic modality in this book is especially interesting and shows how dogs bring healing in ways no other modality can to seizure patients, autistic individuals, and others with disabilities. --J. Lawrence Thomas, Ph.D. - Faculty, NYU Medical Center, and Director of The Brain Clinic, New York City.The analysis provided by John Ensminger s book will be especially useful to the disabled public, government agencies, private businesses, educational institutions, hospitals, health care providers, housing developments, airlines and public transportation providers, among others. --Joan Esnayra, Ph.D. - President, Psychiatric Service Dog Society (from the Foreword)Bound to become the standard on the uses and laws of therapy and service dogs, the discussion of the benefits of dogs as a therapeutic modality in this book is especially interesting and shows how dogs bring healing in ways no other modality can to seizure patients, autistic individuals, and others with disabilities. --J. Lawrence Thomas, Ph.D. - Faculty, NYU Medical Center, and Director of The Brain Clinic, New York City.The analysis provided by John Ensminger s book will be especially useful to the disabled public, government agencies, private businesses, educational institutions, hospitals, health care providers, housing developments, airlines and public transportation providers, among others. --Joan Esnayra, Ph.D. - President, Psychiatric Service Dog Society (from the Foreword)