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Envisioning Access, originally known as Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled, Inc., was founded to raise and train capuchin monkeys to provide daily in-home assistance to people living with spinal cord injury or other mobility impairments.
Oct 24, 2018 · Matching up the right monkey with the right human is, Lett says, “similar to online dating.” One of the key variables is the extent of the human’s disability.
Meet the Monkeys – some who live at the Monkey Living Center, some who are still helping people across the country, and some who live in special care homes. Watch our monkeys being monkeys in our Monkey Helper Videos.
After a traumatic brain or spinal cord injury, the simplest tasks can become daunting. At Helping Hands, capuchin monkeys are trained to help people with dis...
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The Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to training capuchin monkeys to assist severely disabled individuals. The monkeys are raised in a nationwide network of volunteer foster families as though they were human.
Here, we prepared our monkeys to be helpful, empowering, and loving companions for individuals living with physical disabilities. Our past - Monkey Helpers supported service monkeys and their human partners with interactive mentoring and supervision for over 40 years.