What Are Emotional Support Animals? with Becca Lory & Friends | EDB 150

In this episode, Dr. Hackie Reitman speaks with Becca Lory, CAS, BCCS, Antonio Hector, and Walter the Emotional Support Animal! Becca you may know as the co-host of our audio podcast by and for women on the autism spectrum, Spectrumly Speaking. She is an autism self-advocate, consultant, speaker, and writer. With a focus on living an active, positive life, her work includes autism consulting, public speaking engagements, writing a monthly blog, Live Positively Autistic. Currently she is the Director of Communications at the Center for Neurodiversity, Becca also sits on the Advisory Board of the Nassau-Suffolk chapter of the Autism Society of America, the Board of Directors of Different Brains and the Foundation for Life Guides for Autism, the Community Council of AASET (Autistic Adults and other Stakeholders Engaged Together). Antonio Hector is Becca’s partner and the Director of IT and Social Media for the Center for Neurodiversity, and Walter (or Sir Walter Underfoot) is their Emotional Support Animal. The three explain the difference between emotional support animals, therapy animals, and support animals. For more about Becca, visit: http://www.beccalory.com/ For Walter’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sirwalterunderfoot/ For more about the Center for Neurodiversity: https://www.centerforneurodiversity.org/ Follow Different Brains on social media: https://twitter.com/diffbrains https://www.facebook.com/different.brains/ https://www.instagram.com/diffbrains/ Check out more episodes of Exploring Different Brains! http://differentbrains.org/category/edb/