{"id":58495,"date":"2025-12-11T13:38:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=58495"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:38:43","slug":"lifeline-autism-assistance-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=58495","title":{"rendered":"Lifeline: Autism Assistance Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6839\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/LL-111225-002.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6839','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/LL-111225-002.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/LL-111225-002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=58495-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/LL-111225-002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"LL-111225-002.mp3\">Download<\/a> ()<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-IE\">Ger Leddin spoke to David McCarthy from Autism Assistance Dogs Ireland. David talks about how the charity works, what goes into training these exceptional dogs, and the difference they can make not just to the child, but to parents, siblings and the wider community. We\u2019ll also hear about the growing demand for assistance dogs and the challenges the organisation faces as it tries to meet that need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1st broadcast on 11\/12\/2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ger Leddin spoke to David McCarthy from Autism Assistance Dogs Ireland. David talks about how the charity works, what goes into training these exceptional dogs, and the difference they can make not just to the child, but to parents, siblings and the wider community. We\u2019ll also hear about the growing demand for assistance dogs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6840\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/LL-111225-002.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6840','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/LL-111225-002.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/LL-111225-002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=58495-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/LL-111225-002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"LL-111225-002.mp3\">Download<\/a> ()<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[24015,28388,28390,28387,28389,1374,17264,28391],"class_list":["post-58495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifeline-2","tag-assistance-dogs","tag-autism-assistance-dogs-ireland","tag-child","tag-david-mccarthy","tag-exceptional-dogs","tag-ger-leddin","tag-parents","tag-siblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58496,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58495\/revisions\/58496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}