Loose Leash Walking Success for Clients with Mobility Disabilities with Veronica Sanchez

Loose leash walking can be far more challenging to train than it appears, and for clients with mobility disabilities, it can present even greater difficulties. Veronica Sanchez, M.Ed., CDBC, CPDT-KA, explores how mobility disabilities can affect a client’s ability to train loose-leash walking and presents practical training techniques and strategies to help clients succeed.

Learning Objectives

• How mobility disabilities can affect clients working on leash walking
• How loose leash walking criteria may need to be adapted for clients with mobility disabilities
• Techniques for introducing leash walking when the handler uses a wheelchair, walker, or other adaptive equipment
• The importance of precise positioning for dogs walking on leash with clients who have mobility disabilities, and strategies for training positioning
• Key foundation behaviors that support loose leash walking
• Simple, effective strategies to help clients practice leash walking while navigating their disability

Your Presenter – Veronica Sanchez M.Ed, CABC, CPDT-KA

Veronica Sanchez M.Ed, CABC, CPDT-KA is the founder of the Cooperative Paws Service Dog Coach™, an educational certification program for professional trainers in service dog training. Veronica also offers a variety of online courses on service dog training and often speaks and writes on service dogs for professional associations. She is the author of the book, Service Dog Coaching: A Guide for Pet Dog Trainers.

Veronica has a Masters degree in Education and a Bachelors in Psychology from George Mason University. She also has a Certificate in Brain Research in Education from the University of Washington. She has supported owner-trainers training service dogs for mobility, hearing, mental health, neurological problems and dual guide-mobility work. Veronica’s interest in service dogs is both personal and professional. She has a disability herself, a neurological condition called generalized dystonia, and she has trained her own dogs to assist as service dogs

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