Assistance Dog Programmes

Welcome to the Adolescent Dogs Assistance Dog Programme

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With over 18 years of experience, we support the training of Owner Trained Assistance Dogs in the UK and worldwide, supporting a wide range of disabilities including physical, medical, psychological and neurological. All breeds are welcome and there is no waiting list.

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Our fully trained teams

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• Have passed a Public Access Test to the recognised standards

• Have passed advanced training and behaviour training

• Have logged more than 200 hours of public access training

• Have been taught specific tasks that mitigate their handlers disability

• Have passed 2 temperament assessments

• Are fully vet and health checked, and up to date with their vaccinations and treatment

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You can find a list of our active members here

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We support the training of assistance dogs for all disabilities, including, but not limited to:

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• Physical disabilities (wheelchair users, PoTS, Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Multiple Sclerosis, ME, Spina Bifida, Cerebral Palsy, Spinal Injuries, Brain injuries, Strokes, Amputees etc)

• Medical support (Diabetes, High/low blood sugar, Epilepsy, Seizures, Addisons, Allergies, Blood Pressure, Migraines, POTS, Crohns, non epileptic seizures)

• Guiding & Hearing - we only currently have light guiding & hearing videos available, but our trainers are happy to support your training journey in any way we can

• Psychiatric & neurological support (Autism, Downs Syndrome, PTSD, C-PTSD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, FASD, Bipolar Disorder, Major depression, Severe anxiety) Your dog would need to ease your symptoms via specially taught tasks

• Emotional support dogs: An emotional support dog is a dog who provides emotional support and eases your anxiety/symptoms without any training.  Unfortunately Emotional Support Dogs are not recognised in the UK. 

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To utilise an assistance dog, regardless of the type of disability, a handler must qualify as disabled under the Equality Act of 2010. This means that their disability must have a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.  We do not discriminate based upon diagnosis and we are open to recipients with any psychological condition with recommendation from their Psychiatrist

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See below for the different training options available, including our online programme, residential training or our gifted dogs