Helping Hand Monkey’s

                     Jacob J. Bramm and  Sarah Elizabeth Davis

Did you know that a monkey can help people who are paralyzed. They can help people with spinal cord injuries. They help with people who are paralyzed by opening doors, putting DVDs in DVD players, getting a glass of water, they can turn off lights, and they can do pretty much of what you can do.The type of monkeys that they mostly use is a capuchin monkey.  People use the capuchin monkeys because it is considered the smartest monkeys.

When you have a spinal cord injury you lose feeling and movement where the injury was and below that point ,and that is where the monkeys come in. A monkey can do things like getting a glass of water, making something for you to eat, turning lights on and off, and be your companion as well. Service monkeys are better than service dogs because they can do these things and service dogs can’t. Also they are hypo allergenic.

There is a catch though, you can’t take them out in public so get a service dog as well. The reason for that is that the monkeys can get scared in public.When they are scared they don’t perform well,but dogs are trained to handle big crowds.