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work_smp3wkyeq5eabgxcssmukzdeb4	Stephanie Walters Esteves	Social Effects of a Dog's Presence on Children with Disabilities	2008.0	12	.pdf	application/pdf	5617	428	58	the teacher The experimental change introduced sequentially and systematically across the participants was the additional presence of an obediencetrained dog, a German Shepherd/Labrador Retriever cross, interactions because it is effective; The presence of a dog led to an improvement in the social interactions of the children with their teacher; and This intervention was valuable for the child. After intervention, Owen's positive initiated verbal interactions also showed a consistent increase when the dog was introduced (mean 14%; Mean ratings comparing baseline and intervention sessions showed that there was an increase in positive initiations, verbal and non-verbal, toward the teacher and the dog, on all of the assessments A similar increase in negative initiated non-verbal interaction with the dog was seen with Owen, whose baseline mean of 0% The purpose of this research was to assess the social effects of the preserx» of a dog on the verbal and non-verbal interactions of children with developmental disabilities toward their teacher and	./cache/work_smp3wkyeq5eabgxcssmukzdeb4.pdf	./txt/work_smp3wkyeq5eabgxcssmukzdeb4.txt