Service Dogs
Questions: What can a Service Dog do for you?
Service Dogs
What Service Dogs Do
Is a Service Dog for You
How to Get a Service Dog
The Right Dog
The Right Source
The Right Trainer
The Right Training
Your Goals
Your Resources
Getting Ready for a Service Dog
Equipment
Health Care
When You Get a Service Dog
Working in Public

 
Homework
Copy this page onto a blank document.  Write in your answers to each question.  These are not easy questions, and you may need some time to think about the answers and write them.  These answers require more than a simple yes or no.  Describe exactly how you are affected by your disability and how you think a service dog will enhance your life. 
 
Participating in this exercise will help prepare you in the process of getting a service dog.  Some of these questions will be asked by the source of your dog.  Having the answers ready will make the process go more smoothly.  Also, you will begin to think about the changes and adjustments you will need to make in having a service dog.
 
1.  What is (are) your disability(ies)?
 
2.  At what age did you develop this/these disability(ies)?
 
3.  In what ways are you limited or challenged by this?
 
4.  What areas of your life are affected by this?
 
5.  How do you believe a service dog will benefit you?
 
6.  What exercises and tasks could a service dog do to enhance your life?
 
7.  Where and how would a service dog be most useful for you?  (Work, home, school).
 
8.  Describe adaptations you need to make because of your disability(ies) to facilitate your activities of daily living.
 
9.  Describe how you think a service dog could be involved in each of the activities you have mentioned in the previous question.
 
Copy all of the questions with your answers and email the entire document to: Edit
 

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