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Please Help Adi Get Her Dog
June 24, 2011
Adriana Wible
Courtesy Photo
By Mary Pechar
Paws 4 Autism founders Terri and Ken Wible need your help. After raising the required funds to provide a Service Dog for their daughter Adriana, a significant donor has had to withdraw funding. Time is quickly running out to ensure that Adi will get her dog this summer.
If the funds are not turned in by August 1st, she risks losing her placement to another family who has secured their funds. Not only will receiving a service dog help to ensure Adi’s safety, she is reaching an age where increasing her socialization skills is critical to maximizing her learning potential. Adi has PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified) and is considered high functioning. With the needed support now, Adi’s potential includes college and a highly functioning happy adulthood that will not rely on outside services or support.
Please take the time to read the following excerpt from the Paws 4 Adriana web site and learn more about the positive impacts of a Service Dog. Then please do what you can to help Adi get her dog.
For more information on Adriana, Autism Service Dogs and how you can add your support visit the web site at www.paws4adriana.org.
Tax deductible donations can be made as donor directed funds through www.paws4autism.org, a 501c3 Charity Foundation
From the Paws 4 Adriana web site …
Autism Service Dogs - How do they work?
Service dogs provide a physical and emotional anchor for children with autism. With their child tethered to a service dog, families feel they are newly freed to engage in activities as simple as shopping at the mall. On the streets, parents are relieved of the worry their child might run away. In many cases, the service dog accompanies the child to school, where its calming presence can minimize and often eliminate emotional outbursts, enabling the child to more fully participate. Transitioning among school day activities is eased and the service dog provides a focus through which the child can interact with other children. This helps increase the opportunity for the child to develop social and language skills. Not every child with autism will benefit from a service dog. Agencies screen and evaluate each situation carefully. Their goal is to ensure a successful match for the child, the family and the dog. An autism service dog is a service dog trained to assist a person with autism, to help them gain independence, confidence, and the ability to perform activities of daily living similar to anyone else. For the most part, these dogs are trained to perform tasks similar to those of service dogs for other sensory processing disabilities.
Autism service dogs are trained to help the human prioritize necessary information, and assist the human handle situations which are, to them, so over stimulating as to be confusing, much as a guide dog provides visual assistance to a blind human, guiding them through potential dangers invisible to the human.
As with hearing assistance dogs for the deaf, the dogs may also be trained to alert their handler to important noises or other things requiring human intervention, such as smoke or a smoke alarm, a crying baby, a telephone ringing, a knock at the door. For a person with autism, it isn’t quickly obvious which of the many external stimuli is the urgent one requiring their immediate attention. A person with autism must sort through both major and minor stimuli—the sound of crickets, the smell of the fabric softener on their clothes, a car driving past outside—in order to determine which of these, if any, needs their attention. They may understand that a smoke alarm is urgent and requires them to exit the building, but their autism may cause them to take longer going about it.
Autism has become one of the most common disabilities facing children today. Autism knows no bounds– it affects the rich and poor alike and is quickly reaching epidemic proportions. Autism affects 1 in 110 children - 1 in 70 boys. Autism figures are growing. Recent studies by Yale and George Washington University state that the rate may be as high as 1 in 38.
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