[AD] [ASL] What Are the Rules for Service Animals? 

[AD] [ASL] What Are the Rules for Service Animals? With Mia Ives-Rublee 🦮
Subtitles available in English and Spanish. Subtítulos en inglés y español.
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TRANSCRIPT
Mia Ives-Rublee:
Hey, I'm Mia, and this is Zini. Today we're here to talk about service animals.
Audio Description:
Mia Ives-Rublee, a wheelchair user walking her yellow lab Zini with the U.S. Capitol building in the background.
Mia:
What are the rules? How should you act around them? Everything you ever wanted to know. But first, it's important to know we're talking about service animals, not pets, not emotional support animals or therapy animals. There are different rules and different states for each of them, but a service animal is described by the Americans with Disabilities Act, a federal law, and the rules are the same everywhere in the US.
Audio Description:
Split screens of various social media videos of service animals and their owners.
Mia:
So what are service animals? They're dogs and occasionally magic horses. An important thing is that they help perform tasks for the benefit of a person with a disability. These animals play a crucial role in helping us navigate our daily lives and live independently.
Audio Description:
Split screen with various clips of service animals performing the tasks Mia mentions.
Mia:
For example, guiding someone who is blind or has low vision, providing physical assistance for those with mobility disabilities, detecting blood sugar levels or blood pressure drops, alerting someone who is deaf or hard of hearing, reminding someone to take their medication or helping reduce symptoms for conditions like autism, anxiety, OCD, or PTSD. Your service animal has to be trained to perform a specific task, but there is no specific paperwork or ID card that identifies a service animal. Service animals don't have to wear vests that say service animal, even though some do. Service animals are allowed in public places, even those that don't allow pets, like shopping malls, schools, government buildings, restaurants or grocery stores.
Audio Description:
Clips of people out in community with their service animals.
Mia:
Your employer is required to work with you to allow a service animal accommodation at your workplace. However, there may be some restricted areas within these general places of public accommodation, such as sterile environments at a hospital or food prep areas in a restaurant.
Audio Description:
A person gets on a train with their service dog.
Mia:
But generally wherever I can go, my service animal can come with me. So how do you know if an animal is a service animal? Here are some basic questions you can ask: if my animal is trained to assist someone with a disability, and what tasks is a train to perform? But you cannot ask what my disability is or proof that my service animal is trained. It's up to me to make sure Zini is under my control when we're out in public.
Audio Description:
Close up of Zini, sitting attentively next to Mia with his leash and vest on.
Mia:
And you can ask me to leave if my service animal is disturbing or causing destruction to a business until I get Zini back under control.
Audio Description:
Zini walking alongside Mia on the sidewalk. Then, a close up of Zini.
Mia:
But remember, when you see me out with Zini, they're working. Please don't try to pet or distract them. So help us out by following these easy rules.
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Video made in partnership with @bxbcreative
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Disability Rights Florida's Service Animal Resource Page: bit.ly/3qW1Ntk
Disability Rights Florida's Service Animal Fact Sheet: bit.ly/4baM5ir
ADA National Network Service Animal Resource Hub: bit.ly/3JKsDxy
Department of Justice's Frequently Asked Questions about Service Animals and the ADA : bit.ly/44c2ZeA
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