The therapy ducks are increasingly used to support children in addressing their social and emotional learning needs in schools.  This has also been found to help with literacy development.  Some of the benefits recorded in school classrooms include:

• Increased school attendance
• Positive changes lead to better learning and enhanced motivation
• Growth in confidence levels
• Development of better and stronger relationships with teachers and peers due to the experience of trust and love with therapy dogs.  Children learn ways to express their feelings and develop more trusting relationships
• Reducing learner anxiety behaviours causes improvement in learning outcomes like improved reading and writing skills and levels