Education

Our tutors and dogs will be able to recommence face to face tutoring in term 3, and will be managed on a case-by-case basis. Canine Comprehension are following the “Restricting access to care facilities – DHHS Guidelines, which state that workers such as ourselves are allowed to recommence face-to-face sessions as our work is described…

Many parents are wondering how to minimise the emotional impact the pandemic is having in a way that will be reassuring and not make kids more frightened. We believe the most effective & responsible way Canine Comprehension can care for the community, has been to go online. Online sessions: Have your child work with us…

One way they could read aloud would be to read to a dog! – You are welcome to call us to help with tutoring sessions which teach comprehension skills with the help of a friendly Animal Assisted Intervention dog.

Yearly, close to 1000 educators and researchers from around the world attended. PESA is Australia’s Positive Education national peak body. Its mission is to lead, promote and foster the implementation and development of Positive Education, enabling all students, schools and communities to flourish.  Canine Comprehension had an opportunity to showcase our work and wanted to…

Homework! A word that puts a dark cloud of fear and loathing into the minds of many students. It also stirs negative emotions in the parents of those students. Homework often means parents having to nag and argue with their child to finish it. It means the child spending important family time in their bedroom…

As an education specialist, dog trainer and Director of Canine Comprehension, I believe we need to widen the perspectives of our students and offer them tools so they can mentally get to a place where they are calm and ready to learn.Learning needs to be fun. We have all been a student watching the clock…

Successful grades are not a matter of studying hard before the exam. They are about all the work you have done throughout the year to get you there. If you can start your school year in January, rather than February, when school commences, then you are already ahead of the game. You should be doing…

For some kids the transition from primary to secondary is easy. Many of their friends will be joining them and they love their new three-sizes-too-big uniform. For others it can be harder. A time of high anxiety, worry about not fitting in, fear of getting lost or not understanding timetables. What can be done to…

Sarah was contacted by a lecturer at La Trobe University who examines human-animal relationships. She was looking for someone to help out with a short experiment with a group of third year psychology students. The project was mostly to teach the students about doing research, and a trial was set up at the La Trobe…