Federal law and provider eligibility are different questions
Under the ADA, the key concept is a person with a disability using a dog that is individually trained to perform disability-related work or tasks. A particular training organization may impose narrower requirements because of the services it offers.
Programs may limit age, geography or diagnosis
A provider might serve only children, only adults, only veterans, only residents within a driving radius, or only people needing certain task sets. Those are program rules, not a universal definition of who can have a service dog.
The dog must do trained work or tasks
Emotional comfort by itself does not make a dog a service animal under the ADA. Psychiatric service dogs can qualify when they are trained to take specific actions related to the handler’s disability.
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