The Lambert High School Dog Park is bringing another exciting layer to our Therapy Dog program and our Exceptional Students' Classroom. The dog park will provide ongoing opportunities for speech language development, vocational skill building, improvement of social skills and community collaboration to our exceptional students' school experiences. In an ongoing effort to create opportunities for vocational skill development, confidence building, and independent living skills acquisition, Lambert continues to expand on-campus experiential learning for our students.

Over the past year, our specialized instruction classes have adapted the lack of access to Community Based Vocational Instruction experiences into on-campus opportunities for students - all grounded by incorporating our #lambertpack of therapy dogs. Students in our specialized instruction classes created Duck Quackers, their own recipe of dog treats, where they bake, package, market, and deliver these products to our staff every other week. In addition to this opportunity, the students created a presentation about therapy dogs and service dogs that they share with other classes to educate our community about the work our dogs do each day. These students also work on their own communication skills by exercising commands with the dogs, including expanding the repertoire of tricks our dogs can demonstrate during a class presentation.

In effort to provide new opportunities for all of our students to gain new experiences, the #lambertpack dog park will further support social skills, communication skills, build confidence, promote positive speech growth, and offer a unique vocational skills experience for our students and our community.

The Lambert Dog Park was made possible, in part, by a grant from the Forsyth County Education Foundation.