My son attends a private school strictly for autistic children...mostly boys. One of the things they do is bring a dog from the humane society that has been trained as a service dog to visit with the kids. The dog’s name is Honeybun, a beautiful female golden. My son absolutely loves her and I’ve heard the other kids actually talk about how excited they are to see her and mind you, these are kids who may not talk a whole lot or say Anything at all but you can tell by how their eyes light up how glad they are to see Honeybun. And severely autistic children can be taught how to treat animals.
Aside from that, what about dogs who’ve helped out disabled vets, with brain injury or PTSD who could be effectively deemed destructive? I will tell you without a doubt, our little dog who had been abused have been a God-send for my combat wounded husband. :)
Sorry for typos I’m using my iPhone. Dogs have a great healing power!