A Montgomery County nonprofit is helping improve the lives of children with disability by matching them with service dogs.
"She'll usually just lick my finger," said 10-year-old Jessica Lorusso while showing off her dog, Winni."Usually, when I'm doing my hair, she will come and lay with me or set her chin on my lap," said Lorusso.
Laura O'Kane, the executive director of the non profit, said,"What we're looking for is this little spark of magic where the child says 'I've been waiting for you,' and the dog says the same thing.""To know that dogs could be a part of that was overwhelmingly encouraging and exciting," said O'Kane.Paws and Affection trains pups to recognize those symptoms and help kids cope.
"What our dogs can do is they can interrupt a panic attack. They can nudge someone to change their way of thinking," said O'Kane."If they're picking at their hair as their way to say they're anxious, the dog can be taught to identify that and interrupt it."She was adopted during the pandemic to help at AIM Academy, a school for kids with language-based learning differences.
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