Service dog assignments

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What is the difference between a service dog (assistant dog), an emotional support dog and a therapy dog?

The tasks they do are as follows:
1) guide dog (guide dog) leads the blind and shows them the way,

2) service dog (service dog) helps people who have limited mobility, such as wheelchair users, paralyzed, amputee or unable to use their arms or legs for any other reason. These dogs open doors, turn lights on and off, pick up objects that a person has dropped and bring him, help him get dressed, or for example, they can open the refrigerator and bring what they are told from it, they can carry a bag for a person who has no hands, they can in the store, get a bank card and give it to the cashier, and then put it back, and do many other things to help their owners;

3) there are also service dogs for disabled children, both in wheelchairs (infantile cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy), and for walkers with developmental disorders (autism, Down syndrome and other disorders). These dogs, in addition to what I described above for wheelchair users, also help, for example, children with autism to calm down by pressing certain points on their body, help distract them when overcoming changes that the child is afraid of, help children dress and wash if they have an increased sensitivity to touch, and do many other things that are required to alleviate the disability of a particular child;

4) the dog-ears (Hearing dog) warns its deaf owner about sounds to which he should respond, but which he does not hear;

5) medical alert dogs are designed to warn epileptics of an impending seizure or diabetics of low blood sugar.

Service dogs have the right to access any public places where ordinary pets are not allowed, but only when they are accompanying a disabled person with whom they work. This right of access is protected by a law called the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Typically, service dogs are specially bred and trained from birth, and it takes two to three years to train such a dog. Mostly these dogs are trained by training organizations, but private instructors who have the appropriate qualifications, education and certificate can also be trained.

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