The Canine Care Project
Discover what assistance dogs mean to disabled young people and how these relationships provide practical support, care and companionship in everyday life.
Assistance dogs can play an important role in the lives of disabled people, providing practical support with everyday tasks as well as care and companionship.
The Canine Care Project explores what these relationships mean to disabled young people and how assistance dogs become part of their everyday lives.
In this short film, disabled young people share their own experiences of living with an assistance dog. Co-produced and narrated by the young people involved in the research, the film brings their perspectives to the forefront and shows how support and care can work in both directions between people and animals.
Animated by Tom Hudson, the film shares key findings from the Canine Care Project and looks at the wider role animals can have in our lives.
Credits
- Produced by: Dr Kirsty Liddiard (Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield)
- Produced by: Sally Whitney (Co-researcher at the University of Sheffield)
- Produced by: Katy Evans (Research Assistant at the University of Sheffield)
- Animation by: Tom Hudson
- Part of Off the Shelf Festival of Words