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According to the Americans with Disabilities Act<\/a> (ADA), a disability is defined as \u201ca physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.\u201d Elizabeth Long of Autism Parenting Magazine<\/em><\/a> highlights the positive impact pets can have in homes with autistic children and discusses the benefits of different types of animals, including dogs, turtles, and rabbits.<\/p>\n Having a pet can offer many advantages for all individuals on the autism spectrum, such as reducing stress and anxiety, supporting the development of social and communication skills, and providing comfort during emotional challenges. Pets can also help autistic children develop a sense of responsibility, purpose, and pride. (more\u2026<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Which Pets Are Best for Children with Autism?According to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a disability is defined as \u201ca physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.\u201d Elizabeth Long of Autism Parenting Magazine highlights the positive impact pets can have in homes with autistic children and discusses the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,6,10,38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asd-autism","category-aspergers","category-autism","category-autism-spectrum","category-children","category-pets","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TherapyDogs.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}