The test items are for examples;
1. To exit or enter a doorway with no pulling.
2. Walk through a crowd on a busy urban sidewalk.
3. Appropriate reaction to distractions. For example; horns, sirens, cars, bicycles, skateboards, people running, also difficult surfaces, such as grates, tarps, water, slick sidewalks.
4. Able to cross the street safely and under control.
5. Ignore any food, garbage or other things on the sidewalk as they're walking with their handler.
6. With the handlers's permission, the dog should be able to have people walk up and pet them even if that person is carrying something. For example; a bag or their own pet, with the service dog, staying calm.
7. In a public building, the service dog will walk under control and wait for the owner to continue his business. For example; speaking with somebody at a counter, eating, etc..
8. The service dog should be able to walk on stairs, steps, elevators, slowly, and under control.
9. The service dog should be house trained for living in apartments, condos, or any kind of city living.
10. Service dogs should be able to ride on any kind of personal or public transportation and enter cars safely and calmly and exit cars and ride under control.

Our dogs are also trained to be intuitive to their handler's psyche. They are trained in deep pressure therapy, which means if the handler is down, they are trained to lay across the handler. This helps during during panic attacks. They interrupt panic attacks by nuzzling and will wake a handler from a nightmare.
They are trained to block their handler from crowds, danger, panic attacks, and guide their handler to safety. To block means they are actually blocking their handler from whatever danger is coming to them.
They are trained to provide medication reminders.

Our dogs also are trained in mobility. For example; they will brace their handler and this can be done during walking, changing seats from a bed to a chair or a balance loss. The brace means they are bracing themselves against their handler and supporting them. They brace them going up and down stairs. They are also trained to push buttons to open doors, turn light switches on and off, fetch prescription pill bottles and retrieving dropped items. They are also trained to pull a wheelchair.