Welcome to Canine Helpers for the Disabled Inc, we have recently changed our name from Animal Assisted Therapy Australia to better reflect the ways in which we serve people with disabilities.

Training assistance dogs for people with disabilities.

Canine Helpers provides services to people with disabilities and their carers, as well as professionals who work in the disability and health care fields. We do this by providing highly trained Assistance Dogs, including:

• Service Dogs for people with physical disabilities
• Hearing Dogs for people who are hearing impaired and
• Therapy Dogs for people with many other types of disabilities
• as well as Facility dogs which work in Special Schools and other group settings

Canine Helpers is a full voting member of Assistance Dogs International (ADI) and all of our dogs are trained according to ADI standards.

Canine Helpers does not perform therapy visitation services, i.e for nursing homes or hospitals, so we cannot certify your dog for this service.

If you are interested in obtaining an Assistance Dog, please click here.  Please note that Canine Helpers are not currently taking applications due to high workload.

If you are interested in helping to support us in any way, please click here.

If you do not find the information you are looking for on this site then you can contact us here.  Note that we get lots of calls and emails about questions which are already answered on this site. Please read the site thoroughly, especially the faq’s pages, to see if your question is already answered here.