Overview
About the event
The first guide dog team in the United States arrived in New York in 1928, led by Buddy, the seeing eye dog, and his owner Morris Frank.
Since that time, the acceptance of helper dogs for people with disabilities, including vision, hearing and various other impairments, has continued to grow and develop.
But it wasn�??t until 1990 that the job of a dog who functions in a service capacity was defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), setting forth a more official role for assistance dogs of many kinds.
Today, there are many different kinds of assistance dogs, from the well-known guide dogs and hearing alert dogs that help people with vision and hearing loss, to lesser-known helpers like seizure alert and medical alert dogs that can recognize the signs of heart attacks, strokes and epilepsy.
