Ragged Edge Online: Project Cleigh: Dare To Resist!

(...this is a marvelous site,filled with good info,and where we can feel a little less alone in reading others in similar situations,who also are doing what they can to rectify things....)

Gail Nichols' son uses a service dog and used to spend most of his school day in a resource room. The teacher who ran the room, Nichols says, used to tell the boy that his diagnoses -- Asperger Syndrome and PDD/NOS -- didn't indicate that he was really disabled and that the dog wasn't really working. After many attempts to get him to behave like a professional, Nichols finally got a deal in place where her son, his service dog and his tutor would work in a private room away from the resource room teacher. When you combine less-familiar kinds of service dog work and owner-trained dogs, she says, this sort of problem isn't uncommon even after the handlers cooperate with schools to ensure that they have all the information they need to allow only service dogs and not pets on campus.