This is an invaluable resource and serves to clarify legal requirements as well as provide tips in addressing questions and logistics posed by educators, parents, students, and administration in a typically very murky area of disability accommodation.
— Kelly Jerome, MS, LCMHCA, NCC, CRC, CCTP, AAT-I, Board Certified Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate specializing in Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy
Balancing both legal and special education jargon, the authors write in a way that is clear and understandable to the novice reader, but also to those with a background in special education law.
— David Hill, University of Michigan, Dearborn
As service animals become increasingly common, this is an important topic for educators and administrators.
— Jennifer D. Walker, University of Mary Washington
A comprehensive look at an important subject, and a great reference to integrate into special education settings.
— Janice Albright, University of Southern Maine
Papalia, Ewoldt, and Bateman’s Service Animals in Schools: A Comprehensive Guide for Administrators, Teachers, Parents, and Studentsis a valuable and user-friendly resource for service animal trainers, academics, and lay people. It provides school personnel, students, and parents the tools they need to understand the benefits of the well-trained service animal, the definitions and laws that govern and protect all those who use a service animal in the school setting, and especially how to advocate for the service animal handler and animal. The service animal world is often misunderstood and misrepresented; the contents of this book should be incorporated into and associated with required in-service training in all school settings wishing to provide an equitable and social justice-centered approach to education.
— Stacie S. McGee, LMSW-IPR, Texas State University School of Social Work
Service Animals in Schools provides a much-needed, easy-to-read historical and legal understanding of service animals, and a critical overview of what is and is not a service animal. This book includes highly pragmatic suggestions when working through the weeds of services animals as allowable under IDEA, 504, and in transition to post-secondary education or work. A handy desktop resource for educators, administrators, and parents.
— Cynthia Dieterich, Baldwin Wallace University