4 Paws for Ability

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This non-profit organization breeds, raises, trains and places quality, task-trained service dogs with children under the age of 18 and individuals with legal guardians, worldwide.

4 Paws was the first agency in the United States to begin placing task trained Autism Assistance Dogs and the first agency known to place these assistance dogs with tracking skills. Assistance Dogs can be trained in a variety of tasks to assist a child. These include behavior disruption, to distract and disrupt repetitive behaviors or "meltdowns", tethering to prevent and protect a child from wandering, and search and rescue tracking to locate a child who has eloped, as children with autism are inclined to do.