{"id":76,"date":"2018-10-01T21:19:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T21:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/lapupilsupport\/?p=76"},"modified":"2018-10-01T21:19:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T21:19:47","slug":"therapy-dog-zinc-returns-to-largs-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/lapupilsupport\/2018\/10\/01\/therapy-dog-zinc-returns-to-largs-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Therapy Dog Zinc Returns To Largs Academy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zinc - Therapy Dog @ Largs Academy\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ImKBJ4WV3es?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dog Therapy Background Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Research shows that young people can become nervous and stressed when reading to others in a group. However, when a\u00a0 <strong>therapy dog<\/strong> enters the group, they often become less stressed, less self-conscious and more confident as the dogs are non-judgemental.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Therapy dogs\u00a0<\/strong>provide comfort, encourage positive social behaviours, enhance self-esteem, motivate speech and inspire young people to have fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dog Therapy Background Information Research shows that young people can become nervous and stressed when reading to others in a group. However, when a\u00a0 therapy dog enters the group, they often become less stressed, less self-conscious and more confident as the dogs are non-judgemental. Therapy dogs\u00a0provide comfort, encourage positive social behaviours, enhance self-esteem, motivate speech &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/lapupilsupport\/2018\/10\/01\/therapy-dog-zinc-returns-to-largs-academy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Therapy Dog Zinc Returns To Largs Academy!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14921,"featured_media":77,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pupil-support"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/public\/lapupilsupport\/uploads\/sites\/6944\/2018\/10\/zinc-dog.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/lapupilsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/lapupilsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/lapupilsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/lapupilsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/lapupilsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/lapupilsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/lapupilsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/lapupilsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/lapupilsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/lapupilsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/lapupilsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}