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A helping paw
April 1, 2020
The health care needs of each person are multifaceted, consisting of various factors that makes everyone unique. Therefore, effective health care requires collaboration between various professionals to support healthy and meaningful lives. We celebrate April as National Occupational Therapy Month. Occupational therapists (OTs) play an important role across the lifespan in a child’s development or […]
COUNSELING CANINES
April 1, 2020
While Clearfield’s Seth Beardsley was studying at the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science — from where he graduated in the fall of 2018 — one of his instructors had a therapy dog at the funeral home he owned. John Elachko, who owns John N. Elachko Funeral Home in Pittsburgh, has a therapy dog and taught […]
Therapy dog visits children
April 1, 2020
These are difficult, anxious times for families holed up with small children. Ladd is here to help. The service dog normally does his calming and comforting at North Arlington’s Zentai Martial Arts studio. But these days, Allen DePeña, owner and operator of Zentai Martial Arts, has been taking him around to his younger students’ homes to deliver bags full of slime […]
Therapy dog keeping Cork students and teachers connected
April 1, 2020
As schools remain closed in line with the latest restrictions announced by government, students from a local special needs school are enjoying daily check-ins with their therapy dog. Begley has been helping both children and staff at St Mary’s Special School in Rochestown for over a year. Begley usually visits the school each Friday, and […]
Therapy dog brings light to children
April 1, 2020
Research has shown time and again how animals can help us lower our blood pressure, reduce our anxiety and relieve stress. Atrium Health uses a furry friend, Maggie, a Golden Retriever who is a licensed therapy dog, to help patients recovering at Levine Children’s Hospital.
Therapy dog visits nursing home residents
April 1, 2020
Elizabeth “Tiger” Maynard-White and her therapy dog Duke greeted residents at the Harbor Village Nursing Home in New London in a new way, through the windows, on Tuesday, March 31, 2020. The pair has been visiting since Duke was a puppy. In response to COVID-19 they didn’t want to stop visiting but wanted to […]
Macie the therapy dog visits Wallace Library
March 31, 2020
Ten minutes spent petting a dog can make a world of difference to a stressed-out college student—especially during finals week. To help students relax, Wallace Library is hosting a therapy dog event from 3 to 4:30 p.m. today on the first floor. The event is part of the library’s weeklong Destress Fest and a continuation […]
Pepper the therapy dog
March 31, 2020
The curly-haired Labradoodle sits next to the reception desk near the entrance of Shaler Area High School. She’s still as a statue, except for her tail, which wags nonstop as students hustle and bustle through the hallway. When people stop to pet the 42-pound dog, that tail wags even harder. The laminated badge she wears […]
Therapy dog Wookie helping patients at CarolinaEast
March 31, 2020
There’s a pet therapy dog at one hospital in the east that is having a big impact on patients and staff, which is hard not to, considering he weighs 175 pounds. But his size is only part of what makes him so special. Wookie is a Caucasian Shepherd who stands about three-feet tall and is […]
Therapy dogs get trial run in R.I. courthouses
March 31, 2020
The Rhode Island judiciary began working with Windwalker Professional Pet Assisted Therapy to bring therapy dogs into the McGrath Judicial Complex in South Kingstown at the urging of Family Court Magistrate Paul T. Jones Jr. and his wife, Linda, both of whom sit on the Windwalker advisory board. Now the program is expanding. Two-and-a-half-year-old Alaya […]