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DEAR Program of Fidos for Freedom: - http://www.fidosforfreedom.org/FFF_dear.htm
Encourages children to read one-on-one with therapy dog and a trained volunteer. Each child is matched with a Therapy Dog Team for a semester. In Laurel, Maryland. |
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Canine Companions May Help Kids Learn to Read - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1001_021001_READdogs.html
Salt Lake City program in which kids read to dogs. The children have shown dramatic improvement in skills, and other states are now following Utah's lead. National Geographic. |
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Welcome To Kayla's Club - http://home.earthlink.net/~kaylasclub/
A weekly after-school program for gifted, at risk, and special needs students at a middle school outside Houston, TX. Children gain confidence and interpersonal skills. |
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Professor Pups - http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/ar-news/Week-of-Mon-20030825/005666.html
Therapy dogs lend a paw to children learning to read. The dogs don't rush the kids or interrupt them. Princeton and central New Jersey. |
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Reading to the Animals - http://www.pleasantonweekly.com/morgue/2002/2002_11_29.paws29.html
This library program uses dogs as listeners. Kids gain skills reading out loud. One child even read in Chinese. [Pleasanton Weekly] |