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Originally Posted by pinkfairie

How wonderful!
Yorkies do help heal people, and make our days brighter
There's this time when we were at the mall with Kenzie and this boy with Down Syndrome and his parents came to say hi and the boy did pet Kenzie and he was sooo happy and her mom said thank you.
Aw, bless these doggies

Pets are therapeutic; for me and everyone else in the world. My son had to have tubes in his ears at age 1, and needed them earlier, but could not get them due to the anesthesia risks. As a result, and to make a long story short, it affected his speech, and we went to speech therapy for about 6 months until he caught up with what level of speech was normal for his age. His therapist told me to get him a dog; she said that he would open up more and he did. We would catch him talking to the dog before he would ever converse with us, but it worked. (: