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- DEAR Program of Fidos for Freedom:
- 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.
- Welcome To Kayla's Club
- 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.
- Professor Pups
- 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.
- Reading Aide Does Her Job by Lying on the Carpet
- Students read to Annabelle, a beagle, who listens politely. This Canine-Assisted Reading Education (CARE) program is run by Caring Canines, a volunteer organization that offers animal-assisted activities in the Baltimore-Washington area. [Laurel Leader]
- Reading to the Animals
- This library program uses dogs as listeners. Kids gain skills reading out loud. One child even read in Chinese. [Pleasanton Weekly]
- Canine Companions May Help Kids Learn to Read
- 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.
- Unusual Help for Reading Problems
- Television report on program in Salt Lake City in which children read to dogs that "listen." Comments from some of the kids.
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Last update: 5:54 PT, Friday, October 16, 2009
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