Ssgi dogs (autism service dogs)

Anyone heard of this before for your child or yourself maybe? Thought I'd bring it up since it helps me soooooo much.

Kris

thats great i have a litle borhter whos autistic and weve thought about it but we dunt no where to start

any ideas????

I have a service dog, if you read my thread the one about the site that I have by the way,I have a picture of her. We are actually getting a Lab from an actual organization now just because of the fact that we don't like to separate our two shelties, plus Labs can do a 'stand-still' better for adults.

You can train your own lab, I had a link on my site that I have by the way, and it has the ways to train your own lab, then can get the vest from sitstay as permitted by the ADA. We had trained Sasha, the one that I have right now, and she is awesome...just from my reason before about not separating the two and the standstill for getting a lab. Also getting it from an organization since I'm sick right now and can't go out w/ it a lot to train it from the beginning...need one now that is already trained that won't be like separation from the two shelties. Also, some organizations have the voucher thing assistance dogs international but my letter was that I wasn't accepted because of it being 'psychiatric' dog.

Kris

Can you help me find more information about one of these dogs for my 8 year old son? Also, do you know if there is any financial assistance available as far as helping to purchase the dog?

Thanks,

Rhonda

There are two ways of going about this:

You can train your own lab, I had a link on my site that I have by the way, and it has the ways to train your own lab, then can get the vest from sitstay as permitted by the ADA.

Also, there is the assistance dog international campaign you can try. They only take the vouchers in May I believe.

Also, an organization that is just sky-rocketing for people with autism is 4paws4ability, its on my website by the way, http://chat1autism.wetpaint.com/ and go to Service Dogs and then they have videos from them. Their organization you raise the money through donations, etc. so once you get the money together it is like a 'gift' to them and if it didn't work out, which they said it always has, then it stays with them. But, they do a lot of prospective work to figure out if you are right for them, most likely yes... They are soooo passionate about it. They then have you stay there for 2 weeks with them. They have therapy stuff too I guess now for the kids and adults who are autistic/aspergers. Unlike others, its good though, the others can take up to 2 years and not a lot of these places do dogs for people with Autism. I have the couple places listed on my site that do. Also, there is a place in New Mexico that has a training camp for 2 weeks and only costs $300.00, I don't know if they do dogs for people with Autism...I'll check

Good Luck and if you have any other questions for me, I'll answer!

Hugs,

Kris

Here's our website if anyone is interested in learning more:

www.alecsdog.com

Luv,

Kris

Did you get a dog through them?

We have raised about $2500 so far at least that's where we were mid October. We are plugging along!!

Kari

That's great... It'll be such a wonderful thing when you get your dog!

I have a service dog, if you read my thread the one about the site that I have by the way,I have a picture of her. We are actually getting a Lab from an actual organization now just because of the fact that we don't like to separate our two shelties, plus Labs can do a 'stand-still' better for adults.

You can train your own lab, I had a link on my site that I have by the way, and it has the ways to train your own lab, then can get the vest from sitstay as permitted by the ADA. We had trained Sasha, the one that I have right now, and she is awesome...just from my reason before about not separating the two and the standstill for getting a lab. Also getting it from an organization since I'm sick right now and can't go out w/ it a lot to train it from the beginning...need one now that is already trained that won't be like separation from the two shelties. Also, some organizations have the voucher thing assistance dogs international but my letter was that I wasn't accepted because of it being 'psychiatric' dog.

But, we were accepted from them but decided to go w/ another organization that was quicker and right in our town.

Kris