Print Comment
For Military and Veterans Military & Veterans

How Is a Therapy Dog Different from a Service Dog?

Kristen Maisano, OTD
Related Content: 
Brian and Natalie Vines: People Need to Be Educated About Service Dogs
How Can Service Dogs Help Individuals with TBI and PTSD?
Dogs and PTSD
Ross Zafonte, DO: Research Shows Service Dogs Can Significantly Help Veterans with PTSD
How is a therapy dog different from a service dog? Kristen Maisano, OTD explains how they differ and what they do.
 

Click here to see other video Q&As with Kristen Maisano, OTD.

Click here to return to our BrainLine Ask the Expert feature.

Posted on BrainLine May 15, 2013.

Produced by Victoria Tilney McDonough and Erica Queen, BrainLine.

About the author: Kristen Maisano, OTD

Kristen Maisano, OTD is an occupational therapist and the interim director of Rehabilitation Services for the Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, Fort Belvoir Community Hospital in Virginia. She specializes in evaluating and treating military patients with traumatic brain injuries.

Kristen Maisano