The National Confederation of Dog Aid Organizations for the Person (Canidea) will launch an awareness campaign to facilitate the accessibility of public spaces and encourage the use of guide dogs, on the occasion of World Mobility Day and the accessibility on April 30. This campaign aims to make departmental councils and Departmental Houses for the Disabled (MDPH) aware of the skills of these guide dogs, assistance dogs and mediators, whose different specialties are presented in a brochure which will be given to them.
Blind, deaf or even diabetic: in a country with nearly 12 million people with disabilities, Canidea federates twelve associations which train and provide guide and assistance dogs free of charge. A total of 450 dogs, most of the breed Labrador, Golden Retriever and German Shepherd, are delivered each year, which is "too few".
"Territorial inequality"
"It is extremely difficult to accentuate the remittances of dogs of assistance to the person because their education is regulated. Animal aid started ten years ago and we are now seeing the benefits and advantages, ”said Paul Charles, president of Canidea.
"There is a territorial inequality for certain disabled people who, depending on the region where they live, do not have the right to the mobility inclusion card and cannot have a dog with them permanently allowing them access to public spaces" , he lamented. "It is detrimental for diabetic or deaf children who need this animal help," he added.
Stimulate the beneficiaries of these dogs
Dogs are trained with a view to helping and caring to stimulate the beneficiaries on the cognitive, emotional, social and psychomotor levels and to behave well in public spaces. Some 220 guide dogs, capable of learning more than fifty orders, are handed over each year. The "listener" dog knows sign language. It detects specific sounds, such as a baby's crying and directs its master towards the source of the noise.
For the physically disabled, the dog performs complicated or even impossible gestures for its owner, open or close a drawer and a door. On average, 70 assistance dogs with reduced mobility are delivered per year. As for the assistance dog for type 1 diabetics, which concerns 20,000 children under the age of 20, it detects variations in blood sugar levels and warns its owner of the crisis by a blow to the muzzle. Since 2018, 10 of these dogs have been handed over on average each year.
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