Smaller Dog for DAD?

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Employment is covered under Title 1 of the ADA. As long as your employer is not a church or a federal agency, you have the right to have a Service Dog with you if you are a person with a disability as defined within the ADA. The ADA Amendment Act cleared up a lot of the mess the Supreme Court made in terms of definition.

Sec. 4 is the definition - http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/adaaa.cfm

employment discrimination on the basis of disability (includes a lot of links) - http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/disability.cfm

Title 1 of the ADA - http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/ada.cfm

Churches who do not rent space to a secular group are exempt from the ADA. Federal Agencies follow the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/rehab.cfm

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Also, if you have to attend to the dog to the point you cannot do your job, then the dog is not trained enough and should not be there.

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Thank you Paula,

I don't know if I'm at the point where I need to have a dog at work with me- but I would like one for at home and for when I sleep to take that worry away. Even a well trained dog may be a distraction for me when teaching as my students can be super demanding. I would be training the dog myself, I have little experience in this so I'm not sure how well trained he or she would be.