Feeney, S. (2018, January 6). Bringing a Dog to School. Retrieved July 16, 2018

A therapy dog can help elementary-school students to develop social and emotional skills, asserts principal Shari Feeney. In this blog post, she writes that her school’s therapy dog, Boomer, can “stop a child’s tears in record time, help a school-phobic kindergartner walk into school with enthusiasm, reset an anxious student’s day, ease test-taking tension and bring smiles and laughter to everyone he encounters.”