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Service dogs are important members of society and you can help to train them if you have the training skills and an understanding about how to develop a service dog plan.

This young retriever is trained to provide space for his partner in crowd, provide deep pressure therapy when she had panic attacks, and help her to walk without drifting to the right when in an open space.  Training these skills is what trainers learn to do, but putting these skills into a plan so that you can work with a person with a disability is a different skill.  This course will help you with everything other than how to train the dog. 

Course curriculum

Please note that short videos are presented in support of 7 hours of content.

    1. Welcome to the Service Dog Primer

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    2. Meet Your Instructors Sue Alexander and Laura Harper

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    3. How Do I Use Thinkific

    4. Registration Conditions

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    5. Why Did We Create This Course?

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    6. Who Is This Course For?

    1. Service Dogs, Emotional Support Dogs and Therapy Dogs

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    2. What is a Service Dog?

    3. Know the Law and Know your Rights

    4. Service Dog Myths

    5. What is a Service Dog Quiz

    1. Public Access vs Task Training

    2. Public Access

    3. Task Training-Learning About The Client's Needs

    4. Sample Task Dictionary

    5. Service Dogs at School

    6. Work and the Service Dog

    7. Not Every Dog Is Suitable and Not Every Dog Will Make It

    8. The Impact of Breed On Service Work

    9. The Nitty Gritty of Service Dog Training Quiz

    1. Emergency Plans for Service Dogs in Work

    2. Accidents, Ambulances and Emergency Rooms

    3. Emergencies Quiz

    1. You Don't Have to Say Yes

    2. What Do You Know About Working With People With Disabilities?

    3. Screening the Human Partner

    4. Creating a Task List

    5. Screening the Dog

    6. What To Do When You Are Approached To Train A Service Dog Quiz

    1. Project Plans

    2. Sample Public Access Test

    3. PDF of Public Access Test

    4. Creating a Project Plan Quiz

About this course

  • $24.99
  • 35 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content
  • A service dog trainer is luring a white standard poodle to stand over her leg
  • A service dog meets a firefighter
  • A male service dog trainer is in a museum with a service dog candidate

Training Service Dogs is Challenging and Rewarding Work!

If you are a dog trainer, eventually, someone is going to ask you to train a service dog. Learn more about the industry, planning for a service dog project, working with clients, selecting appropriate dogs. Training service dogs can make a big difference in the world, but only if you can successfully prepare a plan and carry it out.

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