Golden Bridge: A Guide to Assistance Dogs for Children Challenged by Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities

di Patty Dobbs Gross (Autore)

Purdue University Press, 2006

In The Golden Bridge, Patty Dobbs Gross provides both personal and professional advice on how specially bred and trained dogs help to facilitate communication for children with autism and other developmental disabilities. This important information compendium is a guide for parents dealing with the social, emotional, and educational issues of raising children with challenges. Myths and labels concerning autism are explored, examined, and redefined. While focused on children, the advice that Gross shares will be immensely helpful for anyone involved in breeding, raising, and training dogs to mitigate any type of disability at any age. The Golden Bridge provides advice about living with autism, animal-assisted therapy and autism, training an assistance dog to work with a child with autism or a developmental disability, and using an assistance dog to deal with a child's grief.

• Autore: Patty Dobbs Gross
• Editore: Purdue University Press
• Collana: New Discoveries in the Human-animal Bond
• Anno: 2006
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 251 p.
• Peso: 431 gr.
• EAN: 9781557534088

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