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Friday Course Descriptions
“Dr. Dog-Man’s Best Friend Helping Man”-The Education and Career Path of a Therapy Dog
Speaker(s): Nicolette Gundersen, MS, MFA and Dr. Julie Krogh
Time: Friday, July 13, 2007 at 1:30pm
Length: 180 minutes
Can any animal do therapy work? Do you really have to train an animal to visit people? If so, how? Can a parrot or rabbit visit people in the hospital? What makes a good therapy dog? Will a cat that visits people in the nursing home be a good worker at a prison therapy program? All these questions and much more will be answered in this presentation!
The talk will cover how animals (with an emphasis on dogs) can be evaluated as juveniles and adults for future work as therapeutic animals. Also, there will be discussion on the training and evaluation of animals for specific animal-assisted therapeutic applications.
Videos of animals being evaluated as young as 7 weeks old will be shown and attendees will be able to participate in evaluations of animals on-site.
Goals:
- Learn the what types of animals are good for different types of therapeutic settings
- Understand what personality and temperament traits in animals, particularly dogs are good for therapy visits
- Better understand how animals are evaluated, trained and tested for specific therapy applications by different local and national organizations
- To gain a personal perspective from two people who train and use dogs in therapeutic settings regularly
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