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Just recently, the Supreme Court of the United States favored a girl diagnosed with cerebral palsy and her service dog.
Although service dogs have been popular since the 1920s, there is still a lot of speculation regarding their definition and specific roles. Several experts give their opinion on service dogs and assistance animals as a whole to address controversies.
According to Jessica Smidt, Healing Enhancement Therapy Coordinator at Mayo Clinic, real service animals are trained to perform tasks that their owners are unable to do for themselves regardless of their individual effort. Eichler also mentions that there are disabled people who are able to perform their activities of daily living better with an assistance animal around. A lof of individuals do not have overt signs of a disability and because of this, they can be regarded in a different way that disabled people who have obvious signs.
Donna A. Baker of Emory Rehabilitation Hospital agrees that service animals can make a big difference in how disabled people are able to live independently. That is because service animals can do a wide variety of tasks for their disabled owners such as opening a door, picking up dropped objects, and helping their owners stand up during a fall.
Article source: Medpage Today
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