Jeanne T. Hampl R.N. is a registered nurse by profession and a dog trainer by avocation. She was the Executive Director of the Prison Pet Partnership Program at the Washington Correction Center for Women from 1994 to 1998. She served on the Program’s Board of Directors from 1991 to 1994 and 1998 to 1999. Under her guidance a new kennel and Service Dog training center was constructed on the prison grounds. Jeanne has trained dogs and instructed clients for the past twenty years. She teaches private obedience classes as well as assisting person with disabilities to train their own service dog. She has also served on Delta Society’s Service Dog Education System’s curriculum committee as well as sharing a place on a Pet Partner team with her golden retriever, Blaze. Jeanne is the co-founder and past president of The Assistance Dog Club of Puget Sound. She is a member of NADOI and serves as the chair of the Committee on disabilities. Jeanne shares her home in Gig harbor, Washington with husband Peter, golden retriever, Luke, and two cats, Cleo and Lily.
Grisha Stewart, MA, CPDT-KA, KPACTP
Grisha owns the Grisha Stewart Academy. She specializes in the treatment and prevention of dog aggression. Grisha has a Master’s in Mathematics from Bryn Mawr College. She also has a Master’s in Psychology with an emphasis in animal behavior at Antioch University. Her first career as a theoretical mathematician and college instructor serves her well in dog training and behavior consultations, because she relies heavily on the problem solving, critical thinking, and teaching skills she gained in that field.
Canine behavior fascinates Grisha and she is highly motivated to help improve our techniques for rehabilitating and training dogs. This led her to develop BAT, Behavior Adjustment Training, which uses environmental consequences to reward the dog and eliminate problem behaviors. She has two DVDs on BAT: “Behavior Adjustment Training” and “Organic Socialization: BAT for Aggression and Fear in Dogs.” For more information on Grisha go to the Grisha Stewart Academy.
Recorded OnDemand Lecture: Behavior Adjustment Training For Reactive Dogs
Barbara Handelman M.Ed., CDBC
Barbara Handelman, M.Ed., LCMHC, CDBC
Barbara has trained service dogs for over 25 years. Over those years, she has had seven service dog partners, all of whom she selected and trained herself. Barbara has shared a deep bond with dogs since early childhood. Her family’s standard poodle, and two German Shorthaired Pointers were her constant childhood companions. As were the baby goats with whom she developed her earliest skills in trick training. Even training one of the adult goats to be ridden. As a teenager, she began assistant-teaching in obedience classes, and helped her parents’ friends train their pet dogs. She has trained and titled dogs in diverse recreational and competitive canine sport activities including: Obedience, sheep herding, and agility. Her agility partners were also her service dogs whom she handled from a power wheelchair.
Barbara has studied and performed temperament evaluations in many contexts, including having apprenticed to Dee Ganley, whose particular specialty was evaluating shelter dogs. Barbara has successfully selected service dog candidates for herself, clients, and friends. She believes that finding the right dog is by far the most complex and difficult part of creating a service-dog-and-handler-team. The BHSDT course which Barbara created, focuses strongly on finding the right dogs for the job and creating viable matches between the dogs and prospective handlers.
Barbara is the author of the highly acclaimed book, Canine Behavior: A Photo Illustrated Handbook. This book grew out of Barbara’s close relationships with her dogs Moon, Luca, and Pan who filled her days with opportunities to observe the fascinating variety of canine behavior. With her book Barbara offers readers, devoted to dogs, a colorful tapestry of interwoven words and photos.
Barbara is also the creator of the 4 DVD set – Clicker Train Your Own Assistance Dog which has been available for almost 15 years. It remains the only resource of its depth and breadth for owner-trainers wanting to use clicker training to train their own service dogs.
Barbara was a Clinical Mental Health Counselor for almost fifty years. She retired from practice in 2017. Early in her career, her work focused on relationship therapy with non-verbal children. In that context, Barbara became a careful observer of human body language. Studying the ways dogs and horses use their bodies to communicate became a natural extension of her work with children. She has also retired from her work as a Certified Dog Behavior Consultant specializing in clicker training assistance dogs for people with disabilities. For the last thirty years, Barbara has had a secondary career as a professional photographer, using her camera to capture the moods and movements of people, horses, and, of course, dogs.
For many years, Barbara was an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maine, and the University of New Hampshire where she taught college level courses with “adult learners”. Currently, she teaches on-line courses: Understanding Canine Behavior, and the Barbara Handelman Service Dog Training Course, Tiers 1, 2 and 3. She was the originator and first moderator of the lecture series on Ethology and Canine Behavior and a lecture series about Service Dog selection and training for service dogs chosen for specific disability needs. Both the courses and the lecture series are offered under the auspices of www.e-trainingfordogs.com.
Currently, Barbara’s animal training energies are focused on Piper, her active service dog whose training is always a work in progress. His repertoire of skills increases as Barbara’s needs vary and change with advancing age and increased disability.
Barbara authored and teaches all three tiers of the: Barbara Handelman Service Dog Trainer program.
Barbara’s courses are very popular: Understanding Canine Behavior and Puppy Behavior and Socialization Course
She is also a very popular guest lecturer of the following recorded live webinars –
Keeping Dogs Safe During Dog to Dog Encounters
Enhancing the Lives of Stabled Horses
Selecting A Service Dog Candidate: A Personal Journey From a Professional Perspective
Pet Transports – The Pluses and the Perils
Intentional Thinking in Animals: Can They Do It and Is It Necessary
She hosted our Service Dog Training lecture/webinar series as well.
James Serpell, Ph.D.
James Serpell is the Marie A. Moore Professor of Animal Welfare at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, where he also directs the Center for the Interaction of Animals & Society. He received his bachelor’s degree in Zoology from University College London in 1974, and his PhD in Animal Behavior from the University of Liverpool in 1980. In 1985 he established the Companion Animal Research Group at the University of Cambridge before moving in 1993 to his current position at the University of Pennsylvania where he lectures on veterinary ethics, applied animal behavior and welfare, and human-animal interactions. His research focuses mainly on the behavior and welfare of dogs and cats, the development of human attitudes to animals, and the history and impact of human-animal relationships. In addition to publishing more than 100 articles and book chapters on these and related topics, he is the author, editor or co-editor of several books including Animals & Human Society: Changing Perspectives (1994), The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behavior & Interactions with People (1995), In the Company of Animals (1996), and Companion Animals & Us (2000).
Recorded OnDemand Lecture: Measuring Behavior and Temperament in Dogs: New Methods and Applications
Casey Newton, BS, CPDT-KA
Casey Newton is the founder and owner of Wonder Puppy, a puppy parenting center in Portland, Oregon. At Wonder Puppy, Casey develops innovative course curricula by applying her knowledge of animal behavior gained from her studies of psychology, as well as her more than 10 years in the field. From teaching playgroups and group classes, to creating instructional dog training booklets and custom training products, Casey has led Wonder Puppy to become Portland’s premiere puppy training school.
Casey’s love of animals began when she was a child in Tennessee, caring for her own family’s pets. Growing up, her “siblings” were the Dachshunds, German Shepherds, and Borzois that her parents bred and showed. Casey’s path was set, and she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, with a focus on Animal Behavior, from the College of Charleston. During her third year of study, Casey took the golden opportunity to intern with Ethologist, Dr. Gordon Burghardt, at the University of Tennessee Comparative Behavior Program, where she studied snake and chicken behavior. At Wonder Puppy, Casey uses her animal behavior background to specialize in puppy play and social development, as well as boundary training.
When not at Wonder Puppy, Casey serves as the Curriculum Director of Whole Dog Academy, a non-profit dedicated to improving human-canine relationships. Casey also shares her knowledge by educating trainers, puppy parents, and the general public through her easy-to-follow, step-by-step training videos. In 2011, her “Coming When Called” video, which focused on “targeting” for effectively teaching the recall cue, earned her an award from the Association of Professional Dog Trainers. In 2012, Casey spoke at the APDT USA Conference, where she will again speak in October. Casey’s teachings will go international in 2014, when she’s a featured speaker at APDT Chile. Casey has, in the course of her career, worked with everyone from families and their rescues, to professional athletes, musicians, and TV stars. Recently, she was a set trainer for “Animal House,” an aspiring TV show that builds animal shelters, and for the popular IFC TV series, “Portlandia.”
Recorded OnDemand lecture: Puppy’s First Twenty Weeks
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