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Below are some useful links about Literacy on Animal Assisted Therapy - Pets - Recreation - :
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DEAR Program of Fidos for Freedom: - http://www.fidosforfreedom.org/FFF_dear.htm
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. |
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Canine Companions May Help Kids Learn to Read - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1001_021001_READdogs.html
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. |
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A Day in the Life of a Therapy Dog - http://www.newsregister.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=172415
A corgi named Fezziwig spends days helping students with his owner, an elementary school counselor. [NewsRegister, McMinville, OR] |
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Who Let the Dogs In (the Library)? - http://www.handinpaw.org/sitstayread.htm
Hand-in-Paw brings the Sit, Stay, Read! program to the Avondale, Alabama, Public Library. |
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Reading to Rover - http://www.visitingpetprogram.org/Rover.html
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. |
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Sit Stay Read - http://www.sitstayread.org/About.aspx
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.] |
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Professor Pups - http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/ar-news/Week-of-Mon-20030825/005666.html
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. |
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Dog Therapy Helping Kids Read - http://www.midhudson.org/department/youth/DogTherapy.htm
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. |
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Welcome To Kayla's Club - http://home.earthlink.net/~kaylasclub/
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. |
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Reading to the Animals - http://www.pleasantonweekly.com/morgue/2002/2002_11_29.paws29.html
This library program uses dogs as listeners. Kids gain skills reading out loud. One child even read in Chinese. [Pleasanton Weekly] |
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A Dog's Life - http://www.oakridger.com/stories/100603/new_20031006022.shtml
Levi, Rascal, and Magie and their owners are part of (HABIT) Human Animal Bond in Tennessee. They visit nursing homes in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. [Oak Ridger Online] |
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Unusual Help for Reading Problems - http://web.ksl.com/dump/news/cc/famnow/dogread.htm
Television report on program in Salt Lake City in which children read to dogs that "listen." Comments from some of the kids. |
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Reading Aide Does Her Job by Lying on the Carpet - http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpid=810&show=archivedetails&ArchiveID=952976&om=1
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] |
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