(2015) Assistance Animals and the Fair Housing Act Service Animals and the Americans with Disabilities Act, October 2, 2015. Civil Rights Commission
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Abstract
An assistance animal is not a pet. It is an animal that works, provides assistance, or performs tasks for the benefit of a person with a disability, or provides emotional support that alleviates one or more identified symptoms or effects of a person's disability. Assistance animals perform many disability-related functions, including but not limited to, guiding individuals who are blind or have low vision, alerting individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to sounds, providing protection or rescue assistance, pulling a wheelchair, fetching items, alerting persons to impending seizures, or providing emotional support to persons with disabilities who have a disability-related need for such support.
| Item Type: | Departmental Report |
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| Keywords: | Law, Service Animals, Civil Rights, Housing, Disabilities, Assistance animals |
| Subjects: | Business and industry Business and industry > Trade and commerce Laws and regulations Social issues and programs > Civil and human rights |
| ID Code: | 40878 |
| Deposited By: | Margaret Barr |
| Deposited On: | 16 May 2022 15:38 |
| Last Modified: | 16 May 2022 15:38 |
| URI: | https://publications.iowa.gov/id/eprint/40878 |