Ethan is an 8 year old boy who is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism affects Ethan in many ways including severe sensory processing difficulties, communication deficites, obsessive behaviours, and ongoing regulation issues. Ethan has a heightened visual and auditory sensitivity w...
Ethan is an 8 year old boy who is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism affects Ethan in many ways including severe sensory processing difficulties, communication deficites, obsessive behaviours, and ongoing regulation issues. Ethan has a heightened visual and auditory sensitivity which means he can have great difficulty in areas like shopping centres, school, play grounds, cinema, restaurants etc. Visiting these everyday places can result in Ethan being overstimulated and displaying frustration and agitation. This means that Ethan's world of experiences is very limited and narrow.
Cara, the Golden Doodle, we received from My Canine Companion, is trained to help Ethan deal with environments that can over stimulate him so he can start to widen his experiences.
Ethan has a low tactile sense which means he does not feel pain in the same way as other children. This results in Ethan potentially experiencing dangerous situations. Cara is trained to help Ethan avoid these potentiallay dangerous situations and to alert others.
So as you can see Cara is an invaluable support to Ethan and us and My Canine Companion have intensively trained Cara over the last 2 years to become Ethan's fully qualified assistance dog.
We will be forever grateful to you for helping us on our journey.
Thanks You, Siobhan, Tony and Ethan