For clients who face physical barriers to equal community access, assistance dogs can be absolutely life changing by helping to remove some of those barriers through tasks like;
- pressing access buttons
- turning on & off lights
- passing card or money to cashier
- passing items off floor or low shelves
- opening and closing doors and cupboards
- unloading and loading the washing machine
- putting items into basket
- helping with dressing and undressing
- finding & leading to dropped curbs
- finding & leading to the lift