CEN/TC 452/WG 3 - Competencies for assistance dogs’ professionals
Standards in this area aim at training reliable assistance dogs provided by qualified service providers with professionally skilled staff. Skills, requirements and competencies for assistance dogs’ professionals and service providers staff with the following topics (at least): - education - assessment - skills maintenance - education & assessment for mentoring and training the professionals and the volunteers.
Competencies for assistance dogs’ professionals
Standards in this area aim at training reliable assistance dogs provided by qualified service providers with professionally skilled staff. Skills, requirements and competencies for assistance dogs’ professionals and service providers staff with the following topics (at least): - education - assessment - skills maintenance - education & assessment for mentoring and training the professionals and the volunteers.
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CEN/TC 452/WG 3 is a Working Group within the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). It is named "Competencies for assistance dogs’ professionals" and is responsible for: Standards in this area aim at training reliable assistance dogs provided by qualified service providers with professionally skilled staff. Skills, requirements and competencies for assistance dogs’ professionals and service providers staff with the following topics (at least): - education - assessment - skills maintenance - education & assessment for mentoring and training the professionals and the volunteers. This committee has published 1 standards.
CEN/TC 452/WG 3 develops CEN standards in the area of Information technology. The scope of work includes: Standards in this area aim at training reliable assistance dogs provided by qualified service providers with professionally skilled staff. Skills, requirements and competencies for assistance dogs’ professionals and service providers staff with the following topics (at least): - education - assessment - skills maintenance - education & assessment for mentoring and training the professionals and the volunteers. Currently, there are 1 published standards from this working group.
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This document specifies the competencies required of assistance dogs’ professionals. The purpose of this document is to improve and ensure the quality of professionals working in a role within an assistance dog organization. Each speciality of assistance dog requires a specific set of role competencies and there are some common core competencies.
Core competencies in:
- breeding;
- puppy raising;
- dog care;
- assessors;
- orientation and mobility;
- trainers;
- instructors.
Specific competencies to train:
- guide dogs;
- hearing dogs;
- medical alert dogs;
- mobility assistance dogs;
- autism and development disorder dogs;
- team training instructor.
It is accepted that assistance dog organisations vary greatly in structure and not every organization will have all the roles identified. Where one person performs more than one role, it is expected that they will have the competencies of all the roles they perform e.g. a dog trainer may also have the competencies of a dog care specialist. And there will be some organisations where some of these roles are not required, e.g. those with no breeding programme will not require the associated role competencies.
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