[NAGDU] Need a dictionary

[Buddy Brannan]

They're not at all interchangeable. A psychiatric service dog is task trained, just like any other service dog. Tasks may include leading a person to a safe place (like outside, if overwhelmed), acting as a barrier between its handler and other people (to keep the person from getting overwhelmed by crowds), going into a place, like home for example, to determine that the place is safe, certainly other things that I'm not thinking of. An emotional support animal (ESA) does not have to have any specific training; its mere presence as a comforting thingy is all that's required. Thus, they are allowed in housing situations, which I can get behind, are not accounted for in the ADA, which I'm fine with (again, no public behavior training or other task training is required), and, as we see, are also provided for in the ACAA (which, clearly, we have issues with). 

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Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
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> On Feb 1, 2018, at 7:26 PM, Nancy VanderBrink via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> If someone doesn’t mind can you define:
> ESA
> Psychiatric Support Animal
> 
> I’m overwhelmed with terms here, seems like they’re used interchangeably.
> Btw, Southeastern trains dogs for vets what are those dogs considered?
> Thanks,
> Nancy
> 
> 
> Please forgive the typos as this message was most likely generated using voice dictation
> Nancy Irwin
> 
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