Students with a Service Animal Ball State recognizes the value
and need of service animals to assist some students with
disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) defines
service animals as: "any dog that is individually trained to do
work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a
disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric,
intellectual, or other mental disability. Other species of
animals, whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained, are not
service animals for the purposes of this definition. The work or
tasks performed by a service animal must be directly related to
the handler´s disability. Examples of work or tasks include, but
are not limited to, assisting individuals who are blind or have
low vision with navigation and other tasks, alerting individuals
who are deaf or hard of hearing to the presence of people or
sounds, providing non-violent protection or rescue work, pulling
a wheelchair, assisting an individual during a seizure, alerting
individuals to the p