Joel Silverman’s Special Needs Dog Trainer Course is designed to empower special needs individuals of ages 14 on up. We are looking for individuals who like dogs, and have a desire to train dogs. The course is set up to give these individuals a knowledge and understanding about dog training, using positive reinforcement. Most importantly, this knowledge they develop can be used to teach their friends and family these very important dog training techniques.

The videos below were filmed recently with a young lady named Hannah, and what you see was all filmed in less than two hours. So these videos are only examples, and this is just a small idea of what we can do.

THE BOND AND RELATIONSHIP
Joel Silverman’s core value is understanding about the bond and relationship in with dogs. Quite often, this very important point that is overlooked, and this message is always talked about in all his books, DVDs, and TV shows. Students learn the value of the bond and relationship, and getting the animal in a place where he simply wants to make them happy. Once the dog is in that place, it lays an incredible foundation for dog training.

THE BEHAVIORS
We understand that there are some limitations in teaching special needs dog training. One of the main things we will not be focusing on are behavioral issues like jumping, barking, and aggression. Instead, we will be only teaching the same six behaviors we teach in our regular JSDT1 Dog Trainer Certification Course. It is a fact that many behavioral issues can develop because dogs were never taught these behaviors:
– Sit
– Stay
– Come
– Place
– Heel
– Lie Down

SMALL STEPS
Since we launched our JSDT 1,2 and 3 dog training certification courses over seven years ago, we have certified over 450 trainers, and we have heavily focused on breaking behaviors down into small steps. We also talk a lot about the foundation, and how some of the beginning steps are the most important ones. By teaching the students to understand these 5-7 steps for each behavior, it simply makes it a lot easier for for both the trainer and dog. We feel like breaking down all these behaviors into small steps can be especially helpful in learning for special needs students!

WHAT’S INVOLVED?
We simply come to you, and work with the up to three students for three days. We want to stay involved with their training, so we will have them send us texts and videos of their training and progression.

UPON COMPLETION
Upon completion, all students recieve:
– A signed JSDT1S (Joel Silverman JSDT1 Special Needs Certification)
– Two signed books – (More What Color is Your Dog? and Rituals)
– Lifetime membership to Joel Silverman’s Membership area on his website (We have videos from start to finish with over 15 behaviors)

GOALS
We have three main goals with this program.
– The first is to give these students an understanding of dog training, so that they may share these techniques with family and friends. By doing so, we feel that this will empower them as they are able to actually teach people these training techniques they have learned.
– The next would be to take the training to a level of actually becoming a dog trainer and being paid, and this comes from time spent training multiple dogs.
– Our last goal is to teach some of the students to not only train dogs, but also to teach other special needs. We plan on taking some special needs with Joel Silverman to other cities to teach others. By doing so, we feel that we can slowly create a nation of special needs dog trainers.

For more information, please email us at joel@joelsilverman.net or call us at (661)713-8832.