OUR CHARITY
AMERICA’S CANINE ACADEMY
PROUDLY SUPPORTS
PLEASE VISIT MerlinsKIDS.org
From the mind and talent of a 12 year old child
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
THE KIDS AND DOGS THANK YOU!
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Merlin’s Kids, Inc.
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A non-profit 501(c) 3 corporation
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Phone: (201) 788-3882
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© 2010 Merlin’s Kids, Inc.
PO Box 21
Midland Park, NJ
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Help another Harry & Emmy
Merlin‘s Kids is a non-profit 501(c)3 charitable foundation that provides service dogs to children with autism and others in need, rescue and rehabilitation of strays and shelter dogs, horses, and to help elderly and disabled, and to fulfill the dreams of any special child. This service is provided FREE to those in need. Since animals have powers far beyond those of humans, Merlin’s Kids rehabilitates animals with issues‚ with the help of children with issues‚ helping both along the way. Animals have the power to connect with people in miraculous ways, and we use this phenomenon to help children and others in need.Merlin’s Kids operates solely through the generosity and support of others. No child will ever be turned away simply because his or her family lacks the financial resources. As we are privately 
supported, Merlin’s Kids uses virtually all donations towards providing service dogs and other necessities to those in need. Donations of any type or denomination are gratefully accepted and carefully utilized. We welcome all to help us help more children through the incredible healing power of animals Please help Merlin’s Kids in any way you can, be it by donations of money, goods, services, or even by volunteering to help us to help more people and animals. Anyone wishing to provide financial sponsorship or to help us in any way should email us at janice@merlinskids.org
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FOSTERING/OBTAINING SERVICE ANIMALS
MAKING DONATIONS
FUND RAISING PROJECTS
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Join us LIVE on PalTalk.com with
Mark German and Janice Wolfe
PALTALK.COM Every Sunday, 8 pm e.s.t. 
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Eric Trump, Janice Wolfe & Wyatt!
Thank you for your support
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IN THE NEWS
(03/08/09) EDISON – A Paramus woman says her life has changed since a dog behaviorist worked with her autistic son and paired him with a service dog of his own. Janice Wolfe, founder of Merlin’s Kids, is a canine behaviorist in Wyckoff, and says she expanded her professional talents to help families with special needs. She rescues dogs, trains them and places them in homes with children with disabilities. Wolfe placed Emmy, a service dog, in Gabrielle Nitti’s home to work with her son, Harry, who has autism.
“Harry is much more regulated when he’s around Emmy, he has fewer and shorter tantrums,” Nitti says.
Nitti says she works as a team with Emmy to keep track of Harry and make sure he feels comfortable and safe. Before her family owned the dog, Nitti says she couldn’t leave Harry’s side for any length of time. Wolfe believes the service dogs can benefit people with various disabilities, not solely the blind.
“To me, autistic children need medication and the medication isn’t always out of a bottle,” Wolfe says.
Wolfe, who is a cancer survivor and says she understands how unaffordable health care can be, places the dogs in homes for free. She is always looking for volunteers who can house the dogs while she rehabilitates them.
Video : http://news12.cv.net/video/AN0308DT.wmv
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Announcement: Service dogs coming to NJ from Dallas! ‚Äè 2009
Just a note to let everyone know that DHL Worldwide is donating the shipping of 3 dogs to be trained for children in NJ and surrounding areas. We are thrilled to have DHL on board! DHL is PAYING for American Airlines to ship the dogs…this is amazing to me! Thanks so much DHL for your generosity and help! We are grateful to you! As you know, we do all this FREE OF CHARGE to the families, but we do need donations from those who can help. Also, PLEASE tell your friends to sign up for the cause on Facebook and to tell their friends too.
Anyone with any connections to fund raising, marketing, a farm for our permanent home, or any means of helping us to provide more service dogs free of charge to those in need…PLEASE HELP US! Just click on the DONATE button and you will be helping a great cause. We are also striving to rescue more dogs in bad situations and rehabilitating them, then training them to e service and companion animals. Anyone willing to foster or donate or with connections to help us to do what we do, please contact mailto:janice@merlinskids.org. We need funds to continue to rescue older dogs that are stuck in shelters when their owners pass away or move to nursing homes. These dogs often languish for years in silence. Please help us to rescue dogs, horses, and kids from lives of hopelessness. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Please help us to help more kids and animals…
DHL Worldwide donated shipping on 3 Ridgebacks from Texas that will be trained by us as service dogs for autistic children and their families.
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Thank you to Dr. Temple Grandin 
for her support and wisdom
Dr. Temple Grandin
Mark German,Temple Grandin, Janice Wolfe and Wyatt!
The Way I See It: A Personal Look atmAutism and Asperger‘s In this innovative book, Dr. Temple Grandin gets down to the REAL issues of autism, the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day. Temple offers helpful do‘s and don‘ts, practical strategies, and try-it-now tips, all based on her “insider” perspective and a great deal of research. These are just some of the specific topics Temple delves into: ∑ How and Why People with Autism Think Differently∑ Economical Early Intervention Programs that Work∑ How Sensory Sensitivities Affect Learning ∑ Behaviors Caused by a Disability vs. Just Bad Behaviors∑ Teaching People with Autism to Live in an Unpredictable World∑ Alternative Medicine vs. Conventional Medicine∑ Employment Ideas for Adults with Autism∑ And many more!PLUS‚Äîan exclusive interview between world-renowned psychologist Dr. Tony Attwood and Temple Grandin!“Every library, large or small, needs this book on its shelves. Every school, large or small, with the responsibility of educating children with autism or Asperger‘s needs the guidance this book offers. . . . Last, and certainly not least, every parent will find within these pages golden nuggets of advice, encouragement, and hope to fuel their day-to-day journey through their child‘s autism. . . . The wisdom she offers through this book and its personal reflections on autism will, I‘m sure, ring true for many more decades to come.” ‚ÄîRuth Christ Sullivan, first elected president of the Autism Society of America “In 1986, a quite extraordinary, unprecedented and, in a way, unthinkable book was published, Temple Grandin’s Emergence: Labeled Autistic. Unprecedented because there had never before been an ‘inside narrative’ of autism; unthinkable because it had been medical dogma for forty years or more that there was no ‘inside,’ no inner life, in the autistic. . .extraordinary because of its extreme (and strange) directness and clarity. Temple Grandin’s voice came from a place which had never had a voice. . .and she spoke not only for herself, but for thousands of others… Oliver SacksTemple Grandin, Ph.D., is unarguably the most accomplished and well-known adult with autism in the world. She has been featured on major television programs, such as “ABC’s Primetime Live”, the “Today Show”, “Larry King Live”, “48 Hours” and “20/20″ and written up in national publications, such as Time magazine, People magazine, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, and New York Times. Among numerous other recognitions by media, Bravo Cable did a half-hour show on her life, and she was one of the “challenged” people featured in the best-selling book, Anthropologist from Mars.Dr. Grandin didn’t talk until she was three and a half years old, communicating her frustration instead by screaming, peeping and humming. In 1950, she was labeled “autistic,” and her parents were told she should be institutionalized. She tells her story of “groping her way from the far side of darkness” in her book Emergence: Labeled Autistic, a book which stunned the world because, until its publication, most professionals and parents assumed being diagnosed “autistic” was virtually a death sentence to achievement or productivity in life.Dr. Grandin has become a prominent author and speaker on the subject of autism because “I have read enough to know that there are still many parents, and, yes, professionals, too, who believe that ‘once autistic, always autistic.’ This dictum has meant sad and sorry lives for many children diagnosed, as I was in early life, as autistic. To these people, it is incomprehensible that the characteristics of autism can be modified and controlled. However, I feel strongly that I am living proof that they can.” (Taken from Emergence: Labeled Autistic)Even though she was considered “weird” in her young school years, she eventually found a mentor, who recognized her interests and abilities, which she later expanded into becoming a successful livestock handling equipment designer, one of very few in the world. She has designed the facilities in which half the cattle are handled in the United States, consulting for firms such as Burger King, McDonald’s, Swift and others.She presently works as an Associate Professor at Colorado State University but also speaks around the world on both autism and cattle handling.Dr. Grandin’s current best seller is The Way I See It. She also authored – Animals Make us Human, Animals in Translation, Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships, Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports From My Life With Autism, Emergence: Labeled Autistic and produced the video -Dr. Temple Grandin (DVD), which can be obtained from Future Horizons. At every Future Horizons’ conference on autism, the audience rates her presentation as 10++. Reproduced with permission |
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A special thanks to C C Sabathia – 11.20.09
