Psychiatric Service Dogs PSD

Psychiatric Service Dogs or PSDs – The Easiest Guide to Understanding When most people think of service dogs, they usually envision a handler with a physical disability such as vision impairment or limited mobility. However, service dogs that perform certain tasks or work to help individuals with unseen or unnoticed disabilities are known as Psychiatric […]

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Do Service Dogs Make a Difference?

With much negative press about peacocks, hamsters, and pigs on planes, do emotional support animals even make a difference? The general public, businesses, and lawmakers are confusing, especially since terms like “service animal”, “emotional support animal” and “therapy animal” are often interchangeably misused. Public perception validates that most people believe that service dogs and emotional […]

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Service Dogs for Dealing with Anxiety & Stress?

Clearing up misconceptions, rules about emotional support animals While student enrollment is reaching a record highs across America, so has the number of emotional support animals on campuses, according to a conglomerate of disability student service centers. Since the Fair Housing Act began to recognize emotional support animals, or ESAs, in April 2013, the campus […]

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