International Assistance Dog Day is on the 4th August. Assistance dogs help people with disabilities or illnesses to navigate through life. They help where they can and perform simple tasks like guiding their owner’s path, helping fetch an item, and lots of other activities.
Here in Australia we also celebrate Hearing Assistance Dogs on 19th April, because on this day in 1982 Amber, the first Hearing Assistance Dog went to help a deaf recipient in South Australia. Since then more than 700 dogs have been trained to help individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Any of these dogs are amazing and should be recognised for all that they do. Reading about dogs that work as assistant dogs is something some of my students have really taken a liking to. They bring a book back and then say are there any more like this?
In the library look for:
• Looking Out for Sarah by Glenna Lang
• Welcome Home Harley
• Meg's Big Mystery
• Ringo's Road Trip
• Goldie Makes the Grade
• Training a Guide Dog by Wendy Macdonald
These books are about assistance dogs:
• Rescue and Jessica by Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes
• Tuesday Tucks Me In by Luis Carlos Montalvan
• Mogie by Kathi Appelt
• Madeline Finn and the Therapy Dog by Lisa Papp
• Hello Goodbye Dog by Maria Gianferrari
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