CHAMP Classes
Yoga Dog
Therapy Dog Class prepares you and your dog for social visits to
health care venues, to reading programs at schools, libraries,
to
colleges during exam week, and visits to other public settings,
including education presentations to schools and community
groups.
Dog must pass a skills test and be evaluated for temperament for
admission.
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Therapy Dog
Therapy Dog Class prepares you and your dog for social visits to
health care venues, to reading programs at schools, libraries,
to colleges during exam week, and visits to other public
settings, including education presentations to schools and
community groups. Dog must pass a skills test and be evaluated
for temperament for admission.
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Basic Obedience
Basic Obedience classes are open to potential therapy dogs to
teach the basic obedience commands required to qualify for the
AAA Therapy Dog class.
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Animal Therapy Terminology
This is a relatively new field and its terminology is still somewhat in flux. Three acronyms appear often in literature and on web sites. Here’s what we mean by them:
AAI - Animal Assisted Interventions encompass both:
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AAA - Animal Assisted Activities, purely social, recreational meetings with people, sometimes one on one, sometimes in groups. The dog comforts, entertains, cheers.
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AAT - Animal Assisted Therapy, incorporates the dog in a patient’s goal-directed therapeutic activity under the supervision of a licensed therapist. It could be physical, occupational, speech or recreational therapy, often at a rehabilitation facility. It’s usually one-on-one. The sessions are documented in the patient’s record.
Assistance Dogs International. Inc. (ADI) is a worldwide coalition of not-for-profit proarams that train and place assistance doas. ADI fosters a collaborative alobal Assistance Dogs International, Inc. (ADI) is a worldwide coalltion of not-for-profit programs that train and place assistance dogs. ADI fosters a collaborative global community dedicated to the highest standards of excellence for the assistance dog Industry. CHAMP Assistance Dogs is fully accredited through ADI.
The CHAMP Therapy Dog Training Classes and the CHAMP Obedience Classes are not part of the Assistance Dog Program. Therefore, ADI does not approve or andorsa those trainind classes. Comnletion of the Tharany Dod or Obadiance Classe does not slanify that vou are a qualified sarvicelassistance doa trainer ADI.