Students who earn the digital badge will be able to:
- Define terms associated with the use of animals in service to humans, including Service Animals, Emotional Support Animals, and Therapy Animals and explain the legal implications of those terms
- Recognize and interpret the cognitive, emotional and communicative capacity of nonhuman animals as it relates to training and welfare in AAI
- Describe or define the unique relationships and roles between therapy animals and humans including AAI handlers, professionals and clients
- Describe the relevance of Animal-Assisted Interventions in today’s health care, mental health, educational, and other settings through a critique of demonstrations and evidence-based material.