Rehabilitative Assistance Dog – Rehabilitative Facility Dog

Types of “In-Direct-Service” Assistance Dogs

Rehabilitative Assistance Dogs – Rehabilitative Facility Dog [RAD-RFD] – [Level 3]
A pKTI Rehabilitative Assistance Dog – Rehabilitative Facility Dog [RAD-RFD] is an Assistance Dog specially trained to work within the confines of a physical rehabilitative treatment facility (inside or outside a hospital environment) to work with Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists, etc., providing therapeutic interventions, methodologies or protocols to patients with physical, neurological, psychological and/or emotional disability or disabilities. These Assistance Dogs are assigned to work with individual patients as part of their treatment team, and work under the orders of a medical doctor or other licensed medical health care provider. These dogs are specifically trained and highly experienced enabling them to establish and maintain a working relationship with multiple patients while working in very high stress environments.
These dogs are either assigned to senior and very experienced handlers or medical health professionals, who control and utilize these dogs as they work with patients. This individual is also known as a Private Placement Handler (PPH).
A pKTI Rehabilitative Assistance Dog / Professional [RAD-RFD] receives within a pKTI K-9 Training Program/Venue:
a MINIMUM of 480 hours of training against the KTI Service Dog Command Set Matrix, over a period of at least 12 months,
a MINIMUM of 240 hours of General Obedience Training, over a period of at least 12 months,
a MINIMUM of 120 hours of “socialization” Training, over a period of at least 12 months, and,
a MINIMUM of 10 Facility Training Sessions, during its final 3-months of training.
At the completion of these training requirements all pKTI Rehabilitative Assistance Dogs [RAD-RFD] must pass the pKTI Rehabilitative Assistance Dog Certification Test, the Private Placement Client/Private Placement Handler / Rehabilitative Assistance Dog Transition Training Course, and the pKTI Public Access Evaluation Test. Once the pKTI Rehabilitative Assistance Dogs [RAD-RFD] has successfully completed these Tests / Courses, it is then designated as a “Certified” Rehabilitative Assistance Dogs [RAD-RFD]. [Note: A pKTI Rehabilitative Assistance Dogs [RAD-RFD] has limited “Public Access” as defined by the ADA. The Public Access is limited to facilities in which the dog can reasonably be expected to perform its duties, i.e. hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, etc.]
pKTI Rehabilitative Assistance Dogs [RAD-RFD] are acquired from:
the paws4peopleTM Assistance Dog Breeding Program. A custom blood-line breeding program specifically developed to produce dogs with the personality, temperament, and disposition suitable for Assistance Dog work,
a specially chosen breeder (either via donation or purchase) whose blood-lines and pedigrees have been carefully researched to produce dogs with the required personality, temperament, disposition, and confirmation suitable for Assistance Dog work, or,
the pKTI Shelter/Rescue Program.
Upon successful completion of this testing and evaluation process the pKTI Rehabilitative Assistance Dogs [RAD-RFD] shall be eligible to wear the corresponding logo of the respective training program / facility where the dog completed its training.