Animal Consultants International is under contract with Vocational Rehabilitaion of the state of Nevada. Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) is a federal-state program that helps individuals with physical or mental disabilities prepare for, secure, regain, or retain employment. It provides personalized services—such as career counseling, training, education, and assistive technology—to overcome employment barriers and foster independence

SMALL STEPS - We have figured out that the best way to teach people to train dogs is to break behaviors into 6-8 small steps. We also talk a lot about the foundation, and how some of the beginning steps are the most important ones. By teaching the students to understand these 6-8 steps for each behavior, it simply makes it a lot easier for for both the trainer and dog. We feel like breaking down all these behaviors into small steps can be especially helpful in learning for special needs students!

THE BOND AND RELATIONSHIP - Joel Silverman’s core value is understanding about the bond and relationship in with dogs. Quite often, this very important point that is overlooked, and this message is always talked about in all his books, DVDs, and TV shows. Students learn the value of the bond and relationship, and getting the animal in a place where he simply wants to make them happy. Once the dog is in that place, it lays an incredible foundation for dog training.

THE BEHAVIORS - We understand that there are some limitations in teaching special needs dog training. One of the main things we will not be focusing on are behavioral issues like jumping, barking, and aggression. Instead, we will be only teaching the same six behaviors we teach in our regular JSDT1 Dog Trainer Certification Program. It is a fact that many behavioral issues can develop because dogs were never taught these behaviors:

– Sit – Stay – Come – Place – Heel – Lie Down

UPON COMPLETION - Upon completion, all students recieve: – A signed JSDT1S (Joel Silverman JSDT1 Special Needs Certification) – Two signed books – (More What Color is Your Dog? and Rituals) For more information, please email us at joelsilvermanatc@yahoo.com or call us at (661)713-8832. We are fully insured with:

We have three main goals with this program.

• The first objective is to help students advance their skills by simply giving them the knowledge to help friends and family train their dogs. We feel this empowers them, as they now have a knowledge of something their friends and family do not.
• The next objective is to help students advance their skills to the level of becoming dog trainers who can be paid for their work. This development comes through hands-on experience and time spent training multiple dogs, allowing them to build the confidence, knowledge, and practical ability needed to train professionally
• Our last goal is to teach some of the students to not only train dogs, but also to teach other special needs. We plan on taking some special needs with Joel Silverman to other cities to teach others. By doing so, we feel that we can slowly create a nation of special needs dog trainers.