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Come meet our favorite Labradooodles, Wrigley and Louie. the Shirley Ryan 嫩B研究院's trained therapy dogs! Animal-assisted Therapy (AAT) is the use of a dog to facilitate positive changes in a broad spectrum of therapeutic settings. Under direction of health services and education professionals, animal-assisted therapy can promote physical movement, emotional well being, cognitive awareness and social improvement for people with disabilities.
Our staff canine companion & service dogs assist patients with various physical, cognitive and emotional treatment goals through individual treatments or visits to the patient units handled by trained recreational therapists.
We also offer a weekly animal-assisted therapy program with the . Certified therapy dogs and volunteers work in groups with patients to reach rehabilitation goals supervised by recreational therapists.
MANAGER, THERAPEUTIC RECREATION
Michael Wehner