[nagdu] statistics on service animals

[Ed and Toni Eames]

Dear Angie,

Thanks for posting the actual quote from the article.  It did nmake 
it to the list!

We know there are approximately 11,000 guide dogs working in the U.S. 
This figure is based on material obtained from the training programs, 
adding some for owner trained and subtracting more for teams trained 
in the U.S. and living outside the country.

For the rest, it is a guess, pure and simple!  However, Assistance 
Dogs International collects statistics from their member training 
programs.  I've used those figures for the estimates of hearing and 
service dogs.  ADI program graduates represent only a portion of 
hearing and service dogs, since many currently working in the U.S. 
are owner trained.

Ed

At 08:06 PM 1/17/2009, you wrote:
>Hi Ed and Toni,
>
>Sorry for the misquote. (I tried to sen a correction, but I don't 
>know if that made it to the list.)
>
>Can you talk about how you reach the 30,000 figure?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Angie
>
>On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:40:11 -0800, Ed and Toni Eames wrote:
>
> >Dear Angie and All,
>
> >Thanks for passing on the link to our article.  However, the figure
> >of 9,000 working assistance dogs should be working guide dogs.  We're
> >now estimating 30,000 working assistance dogs, which includes guide,
> >hearing and service dogs.  That's the figure we use in our revised
> >Partners in Independence DVD that has just been released.
>
> >Ed and Toni
>
> >At 08:03 PM 1/14/2009, you wrote:
> >>Hi Liz,
> >>
> >>Ed and Toni Eames published an article in 1995 that estimated that
> >>there were 9,000 assistance-dog teams in the US. Even though this is
> >>an older article, you might find it interesting. Here's a link to
> >>the pdf version:
> >>
> >>www.dsq-sds-archives.org/_articles_pdf/2001/Summer/dsq_2001_Summer_06.pdf
> >>
> >>
> >>If you go to google and type the following, with quotes, the article
> >>will be the first search result:
> >>
> >>"disability studies quarterly" "assistance dog"
> >>
> >>You can then click on "view as html" to read it, if you can't deal
> >>with the pdf directly.
> >>
> >>If you find any other stats, I hope you will share them. I'm always
> >>interested in this type of thing.
> >>
> >>HTH,
> >>
> >>Angie
> >>
> >>
> >>On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:46:34 -0600, Elizabeth Campbell wrote:
> >>
> >> >Hello all,
> >>
> >> >Does anyone know if there are statistics out there on how many
> >> people wiht disabilities use service dogs and on how many use other
> >> types of service animals such as miniature horses or monkeys?
> >> >I'm doing a story where such information would be very helpful.
> >> >I told our editors that it may be difficult to come up with good
> >> figures since there is no agency to certify or register service animals.
> >>
> >> >Any help is grately appreciated.
> >>
> >> >Liz
> >>
> >> >Liz
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