In The Golden Bridge
Patty Dobbs Gross

Personal and professional advice on how specially bred and trained dogs help to facilitate communication for children with autism and other developmental disabilities. This important information compendium is a guide for parents dealing with the social, emotional, and educational issues related to raising children with challenges. The advice that Gross shares will be immensely helpful for anyone involved in breeding, raising,and training dogs to mitigate any type of
disability at any age. The Golden Bridge provides advice about living with autism, animal-assisted therapy and autism, training an assistance dog to work with a child with autism or a developmental disability, and using an assistance dog to deal with a child's grief. This impressive volume also contains a vast list of resources, including Web sites, for follow-up information, a section on books about autism, and a directory of assistance dog providers.

Working Dogs
Kristin Mehus-Roe & Keith May

True Stories of Dogs and Their Handlers.
This book explores the many ways in which dogs historically and currently serve humankind in the workplace, while encouraging sensitivity to the needs of working dog breeds kept as pets.

Through more than 90 interviews, the author explores the symbiotic relationship between a working dog and its handler, allowing the individual stories to shine as well as looking at the larger meaning of working dogs in our society. WORKING DOGS addresses both the positives and negatives of dog work and looks at what working dogs symbolize in the larger role of animals in society.

Some of the specific jobs investigated include Service Dogs, Search and Rescue Dogs, K-9 Cops, and Showbiz Dogs.

Calming Signals: What Your Dog Tells You
              By Turid Rugaas

Signals that dogs give other dogs and humans that denote stress. These are dogs' attempts to defuse situations that otherwise might result in fights or aggression.The book and DVD shows of many calming signs, how dogs use them, and how you can use them to calm your dog.

Book/DVD set     (not close captioned)

Therapy Dogs
Kathy Diamond Davis

Here is information you need to select, socialize and train your dog for this important and rewarding work. Learn about certification, liability, and getting started. Gives you all the information you need to select, socialize and train your dog for this work. You will learn: *What therapy dog work involves and how to train for it *Benefits therapy dog work provides for you, your dog and others *Various settings in which therapy dog teams do their work *Whether your family pet might make a good therapy dog *Selecting and training a puppy for therapy work *How to keep yourself and your dog fresh for the work .
**Includes a complete course outline for teaching therapy dog classes!

In TEAMWORK I, authors Nordensson and Kelley offer insight into dog behavior while giving clear and easy to understand instructions for people with disabilities to teach basic obedience skills to their dogs.
Revised and expanded!

 

TEAMWORK II, is the companion volume to TEAMWORK I. Written by Nordensson and Kelly, TEAMWORK II builds upon the basic obedience skills covered in TEAMWORK I to teach service exercises

See the same great training techniques from TEAMWORK II training manual demonstrated for you step-by-step in this beautiful and entertaining video on DVD.
Now features closed captioning.