Joan
is
a scientist with 20 years of experience in the application of scientific
principles to study design and data interpretation. Joan holds a Bachelor's
degree in Biology and Chemistry from the University
of Waterloo and a Master's degree in
Biochemistry from MacMaster
University. She
operates a private consulting practice in the fields of human health and
environmental risk assessment.
Joan
has trained dogs using positive reinforcement methods for more than 10 years
and more recently has instructed others in clicker training techniques. She
has worked with animal behaviorists and has used clicker training methods
with pet dogs and puppies, problem dogs, shelter dogs and service dogs. Joan is
the producer of the popular Clicker Puppy DVD and a member of the Karen Pryor
Clickertraining Clicker Expo faculty. She is a pioneer in the field of
clicker training rabbits and has co-authored an article about clicker
training rabbits in the Jan 2005 issue of Rabbits USA with Teresa Lewin. Joan
and Teresa also have a book to be published in the Fall of 2005 called
Getting Started - Clicker Training Your Small Pet to be published by KPCT.
Joan contributes regularly to the dog and humane education literature and has
had articles published in the CAPPDT Forum, the APDT Chronicle, Dogs in
Canada, the Newf News, Canadian Parents On-line the Latham Letter, Animal
Wellness, Pets Quarterly, City Dog and Great Canadian Home and Cottage
Magazine.
Joan works with experts Theresa McKeon and Karen Pryor to develop methods for
using clicker training with child athletes. This cross-over to human training
using the clicker is called Tag
Teaching and Joan is active in the promotion and development of this new
method. She is in the process of co-authoring a book on this method with
Karen Pryror and Theresa McKeon.
In addition she is active in dog bite prevention and has given many seminars
on this topic. Joan is the president and cofounder of Doggone Safe. She is
the co-inventor, along with animal behaviorist Teresa Lewin, of the family
fun board game Doggone Crazy!, a game that teaches children to read dog body
language and act safely around dogs. Joan has been nominated for the Dog
Training Excellence and the Education 2005 Award by the International
Positive Dog Training Association. She lives in Campbellville, a small
village in Southern Ontario, with her
husband, Dave, two daughters, two cats and two bunnies.
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