A charity that helps adults with physical disabilities to train their own canine pet to become an assistance dog needs to ...

Great volunteer opportunities for service dog trainers at disability assistance dogs Disability Assistance Dogs is developing a volunteer service dog training team. Volunteers will teach a dog the ...

A service animal is defined in Title II: Section 35.104 under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as a dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an ...

When she was about 8 years old, Rosina Bignall saw a movie about guide dogs. “I thought it was just incredible,” she said. Dogs suddenly became a huge part of her life. In particular, she wanted to ...

One woman, who received a disability assistance dog from K9 Search Medical Detection, said it wasn't trained to provide her with anything that she needed.

With Haydn, I learned to be someone again” – this is just one of the statements that show: Dogs can help people start a new ...

What can you tell me about service dogs for seniors with disabilities? My 67-year-old father has chronic arthritis and Parkinson’s disease, and I’m wondering if an assistance dog could help make his ...

It’s taken 32 years, but the late Alamo Reaves’ dream has finally come true: Handi-Dogs, the organization she helped found in 1973 to train dogs to assist the disabled, now has an impressive new home ...

A woman says she was left feeling "dehumanised" after being turned away from a Wetherspoons pub because she was with her ...

A woman with post-traumatic stress disorder, who was twice refused permission to fly on Air New Zealand with her assistance ...

In two separate incidents, Brisbane woman Lisa Robinson was not allowed to fly with her assistance animal Lilly. Ms Robinson, who has PTSD, filed a discrimination complaint against Air New Zealand and ...