The Difference Between ESA Animals and ADA Animals?

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ESA AND ADA ANIMALS? 
By Team Robomojo

Did you know that Animal Therapy has many acronyms? One of the most common acronyms are for service providers. One common use for animals is that people will seek out an animal for Emotional support ESA. Or if a person is in need of a assistance for a disability, they assign the acronym ADA.
Here are the official definitions.

An ESA animal is an emotional support animal (Thats what ESA stands for) is a companion that a medical professional has determined provides benefit for an individual with a disability.

 An ADA animal also know as a service animal is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for a person with a disability.

Learning About Assisted Hearing For The Deaf By Liam Powers-Ginter

Dogs help humans overcome hearing obstacles. For example, hearing dogs help people that are deaf. Many  people wonder what hearing dogs do for people that are deaf. The hearing dogs help around the house with every day tasks. For some children, sounds like fire alarms, door bells, someone knocking, and daily skills. In public, dogs wear a vest to let people know that the person walking the dog is deaf. The most important thing a hearing dog provides in public is an  increased awareness of his or her environment.

Training hearing dog normally takes 4 to 6 months. Humans will train the dog to alert the person about different kinds of sounds. When the dogs get placed with there they learn to hear for the human, and respond to sounds like the  microwave or the dishwasher.  Hearing dogs can be taught to alert people to any repetitive sound that can be set up and practiced regularly.

Service Animals: Freqently Asked Questions

What is a Service Animal?
By Caden Giardino, Caleb Giardino and Vinny Glasso

Picture by Zipster969

A service animal is a certain trained animal for a certain type of need. These animals are trained in order to fulfill the task(s) that the owner can not or no longer preform.  

Do Service Animals Have to be Leashed?

   A service animal must have a harness, leash or other tether, unless the handler is unable to use a tether or harness because of a disability or the use of a tether would interfere with the service animal's ability to safely perform its work or tasks.

What Tasks Can Service Animals Do?

Service animals can perform multiple tasks. Here are some examples:

 Visual impairment, hearing impairments, mental illnesses (such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)), seizure disorder, mobility impairment, and diabetes.

Source: By Zipster969, pawsitivityservicedogs.com - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28331491

CNY Animal Allies Helps People Get Connected to Animal Assisted Therapies and Services

By Cole Brazinski

As part of our service project, we wanted to help people connect to animals. As far as we know, this is the first website in Central New York to help connect people and animals. Are goal is to find a way that animals and humans interact and how these interactions could improve the lives of humans.

One connections we found is hippo therapy.  Hippo therapy is treatment strategy for people with disabilities that utilizes equine movement. Hippo therapy literally means "treatment with the help of the horse" from the Greek word, "hippos" meaning horse.

Specially trained therapists use this treatment for clients with movement dysfunction. In hippo therapy, the movement of the horse influences the client. The client is positioned on the horse and actively responds to his movement. The therapist directs the movement of the horse; analyzes the client's responses; and adjusts the treatment accordingly. This strategy is used as part of an integrated treatment program to help kids and people attain independence.

Some places that offer Hippo therapy are http://www.rootfarm.org/

Sources: http://www.childrenstheraplay.org/