TEAMWORK, by Tucson trainers/authors Stewart Nordensson and Lydia Kelley
has been published by TOP DOG Publishing Company. This nonfiction book
is a dog training manual for people with physical disabilities.

Chapters include; sit, down, stay, come, controlled walk, attention,
giving APPROPRIATE PRAISE, feeding, equipment, using treats the proper
way, and other things having to do with forming a dog to be a
well-behaved pet.

The book addresses people who are in manual wheelchairs and powerchairs.
Although the training  theories are the same the applications are quite
different.  Someone that is unable to speak is able to train a dog but
has to take different approaches.  People that have to walk with the aid
of devises have to train in a different way then people that don't use
devises.

Someone that has a lot of involuntary movements will have to take
another avenue.  If a person is going to train his dog by using food but
is unable to hold it, he will learn how when he read TEAMWORK.   That
person might have to use a friend as training equipment.  The person
that is not able to reach the dog will have to elevate him.

 (I took a dog and taught her to get on steps in order to teach her the
"down" command.)

We take into account that each person and dog is different.  People with
the same disability are affected in different ways. We recognize that
there are  many ways to train a dog. Just because we suggest one way of
training doesn't mean at that is the only way.

TEAMWORK tries to give the reader the knowledge to train a dog in mostly
positive ways.  If people follow this book they will be able to teach
their dogs to how to learn and they will both will be ready for TEAMWORK
2 which should be available next year.

Right now TEAMWORK is available only through TOP DOG Publishing Company
in Tucson. TEAMWORK cost $14.95 $3 for postage and handling from TOP DOG
Publishing Company, 800 N. Swan, Tucson, AZ  85711.