Great volunteer opportunities for service dog trainers at disability assistance dogs Disability Assistance Dogs is developing a volunteer service dog training team. Volunteers will teach a dog the ...

Most people know that an assistance dog helps someone with a disability – but beyond that, many false assumptions surround ...

A service animal is defined in Title II: Section 35.104 under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as a dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an ...

Forget Shark Week, it’s Bark Week on Mashable. Join us as we celebrate all the good dogs, which we humans do not deserve. Recently, I noticed a person about to cross the street — right into the path ...

A senior employment minister heard first-hand the endless ‘paws-ibilities’ assistance dogs can give to help people remain in work. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Star, you can get ...

Shoshana Tanner founded Topaz Assistance Dogs knowing what it’s like to live with a disability. The nonprofit was named after the state gem of Texas, the topaz, where Tanner was living when she ...

TOKYO — On a winter day many years ago, Yoshitomo Kimura fell out of his wheelchair when he was trying to get into his car. He yelled for help, but no one was around — except Cynthia, his Labrador ...

A teenager has been promoted to a key role in organising an event that raises thousands for the charity that has transformed her life. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you ...

A trailblazer of the assistance animal world could use the Support Dogs charity’s pioneering work as the blueprint to introduce autism assistance dogs to Japan. Sam Tawada, a respected figure in the ...