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Animal Assisted Interventions

ESY Students Enjoy Speech Unit on Time Travel

By |2020-07-21T17:25:24-04:00July 20th, 2020|Academics, Animal Assisted Activities, Animal Assisted Education, Animal Assisted Interventions, Animal Assisted Therapy, ESY, High School, Lower School, Speech|

Calais School ESY Upper School and Lower School students are taking trips through time in a summer speech unit on Time Travel.   The students started with the 1920s and last week traveled all the way to the 1940s, said [...]

Calais School Names John Cohrs as New Principal; Dr. Diane Manno to Become Supervisor of Related Services

By |2020-07-15T17:51:43-04:00July 15th, 2020|12 Plus Program, Academics, Animal Assisted Activities, Animal Assisted Education, Animal Assisted Interventions, Animal Assisted Therapy, Calais Happenings, Counseling, High School|

Calais School Executive Director David Leitner has announced that Calais School Assistant Principal John Cohrs will become the school’s new Principal effective July 1, 2020. Mr. Cohrs, who also serves as the school’s Supervisor of Curriculum as well as the [...]

Animal Assisted Interventions Dogs Help Students Learn Social Skills

By |2020-07-09T16:44:08-04:00July 7th, 2020|Animal Assisted Activities, Animal Assisted Education, Animal Assisted Interventions, Social Skills Building|

The Calais Animal Assisted Interventions Dogs and their handlers work with Calais students during the school year and the summer helping students learn and develop important social skills. AAI Handler Susan Greenbaum works with her dogs and students regularly at [...]

Calais School AAI Dogs Celebrate Retirement with Virtual Celebration

By |2020-06-29T17:35:36-04:00June 29th, 2020|Academics, Animal Assisted Activities, Animal Assisted Education, Animal Assisted Interventions, Animal Assisted Therapy, Calais Happenings, Counseling, Occupational Therapy|

Calais School Animal Assisted Interventions (AAI) dogs Sage, Cali and Oreo recently retired from their positions as AAI dogs at the school. To celebrate their retirement and to say “goodbye” to all their Calais School friends, Animal Handlers Susan Greenbaum, [...]

Calais Hosts First Virtual Open House

By |2020-06-05T14:38:10-04:00June 5th, 2020|12 Plus Program, Academics, Animal Assisted Activities, Animal Assisted Education, Animal Assisted Interventions, Animal Assisted Therapy, Calais Happenings, Counseling, High School, Lower School|

The Calais School hosted its first ever virtual open house program on Thursday, May 28. The event, which took place virtually over Zoom, was a wonderful achievement, attracting more than 20 parents, social workers and school psychologists looking for a [...]

Daily Record Runs Front Page Story on AAI Program

By |2020-05-01T17:24:33-04:00May 1st, 2020|Animal Assisted Activities, Animal Assisted Education, Animal Assisted Interventions, Animal Assisted Therapy, Counseling, Reading|

The Calais School's Animal Assisted Intervention (AAI) Program was recently featured on the front page of the Daily Record. The paper's reporter Gene Myers wrote a story about how well our AAI program is adapting during the Covid-19 pandemic and [...]

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