service dogs
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“Toddler mauled by service dog” – the cost of thoughtless disability letters.
The headline was all too familiar, “Toddler mauled by service dog.” We have seen it before when untrained animals were allowed on airlines or in other public places.(6) When it is passenger passing off a peacock as an emotional support bird it is funny. When it is a child who may be disfigured for life Continue reading
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Pit Bulls and disability discrimination – the hard problem of FHA, ADA and ACAA policy
Delta’s recent announcement that it was banning “pit bull type” dogs from its flights* has focused public attention on a long-standing problem in disability law; the inherent conflict between the need for easy to apply policies concerning service and emotional support animals and the prohibition in the law against basing decisions on stereotypes. You can ban Continue reading
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Hunt article published in The National Psychologist
The National Psychologist’s January/February 2017 edition includes Richard’s article “What is a disability, anyway?” The article explains for mental health professionals why caution is needed in diagnosing a “disability” when the term has a legal, rather than a medical, meaning. You can read the full text of the article at The National Psychologist online edition. Those Continue reading
