Transforming lives one heart at a time! 529 Cass Crescent
Winchester, ON K0C 2K0
ph: 613-774-0001
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Benefits and Goals
- Provide assistance to people with mobility, visual, hearing, and other special needs
- Assistance is provided to alleviate a body function, extend, or sustain functional capabilities
- Reduce or eliminate the need for a human attendant
- Promote active living
- Mutual gift of unconditional acceptance
- Builds self-esteem & enhances independence
Animal Assisted Support Services
Animal Assisted Support Services are programs and services where the animal becomes the means used in treatment or for assistance to improve functional capabilities and quality of life©.
Who Benefits?
Individuals facing physical, intellectual, emotional, behavioral, developmental, and social challenges benefit from Animal Assisted Support Services {AASS}. Services are tailored to meet the special needs of those served.
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Benefits and Goals
- Reduce a sense of isolation and creates a human-animal bond of mutual acceptance
- Build self confidence
- Reduce stress levels and blood pressure
- Promote active living
- Reduce violent behavior and emotional stress
- Physiotherapists
- Early Childhood Educators
- Social Workers
- Mental Health Clinicians
- Speech Pathologists
- Great icebreaker & interaction generates laughter and a sense of well being
Application
- Nursing Homes
- Retirement Homes
- Hospitals
- Schools
- READ Programs
- Pet Prison Programs
- Youth Animal Programs
Benefits
- Normalize muscle tone
- Mobilize joints
- Improves postural control
- Improves fitness
- Improves balance
- mproves functional activity
- Improves self esteem and independence
- Highly motivational
- Develops mobility, balance and coordination
529 Cass Crescent
Winchester, ON K0C 2K0
ph: 613-774-0001
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