Animal Assisted Therapy Literacy
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DEAR Program of Fidos for Freedom: - Encourages children to read one-on-one with therapy dog and a trained volunteer. Each child is matched with a Therapy Dog Team for a semester. In Laurel, Maryland.
Dog Therapy Helping Kids Read - H.A.R.T. (Human-Animal Relational Therapies) brings therapy dogs with their handlers to the Mahopac (New York) Library where children learn to read better when they read to the dogs.
Reading to Rover - For children who struggle with reading aloud in a group. Dogs offer a calm accepting presence for the children to practice. Pictures. In the New Orleans area.
Sit Stay Read - Improves literacy skills and fosters a love of animals by partnering reading assistance dogs with children. Includes training and testing for pet and handler. How it works in Chicago. [May not work for all browsers.]
Welcome To Kayla's Club - A weekly after-school program for gifted, at risk, and special needs students at a middle school outside Houston, TX. Children gain confidence and interpersonal skills.
A Day in the Life of a Therapy Dog - A corgi named Fezziwig spends days helping students with his owner, an elementary school counselor. [NewsRegister, McMinville, OR] (November 21, 2003)
Professor Pups - Therapy dogs lend a paw to children learning to read. The dogs don't rush the kids or interrupt them. Princeton and central New Jersey. (August 31, 2003)
Reading Aide Does Her Job by Lying on the Carpet - Students read to Annabelle, a beagle, who listens politely. This Canine-Assisted Reading Education (CARE) program is run by Caring Canines, a volunteer organization that offers animal-assisted activities in the Baltimore-Washington area. [Laurel Leader] (May 29, 2003)
Reading to the Animals - This library program uses dogs as listeners. Kids gain skills reading out loud. One child even read in Chinese. [Pleasanton Weekly] (November 29, 2002)
Canine Companions May Help Kids Learn to Read - Salt Lake City program in which kids read to dogs. The children have shown dramatic improvement in skills, and other states are now following Utah's lead. National Geographic. (October 9, 2002)
Unusual Help for Reading Problems - Television report on program in Salt Lake City in which children read to dogs that "listen." Comments from some of the kids. (November 17, 1999) Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.