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Angelo Stevens Twelve-year-old Andrew Stevens and his best friend are looking forward to the start of a new semester. After mediation with the Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, Andrew's parents have worked out an arrangement that will allow Andrew and his seizure-alerting service dog, Alaya, to attend classes. The school's refusal to allow Alaya in class garnered much media coverage including an article in Paw Nation. But after going through mediation with Andrew's father, Angelo Stevens, as well as Alaya's service dog trainer, the school's administration has agreed to a three-week trial period in which the Stevens family can prove that Alaya the service dog can get straight A's ...

A service dog named Alaya is making the life of a boy with epilepsy a bit easier. The dog not only senses the child's oncoming seizures (which can be as many as 20 a day), Ayala is trained to lick the boy, which brings a magnet in her collar in contact with a nerve stimulator on the boy's chest, lessening the impact of the seizures, sometimes even preventing them. For the first time in his life, the boy can go out to play without his parents by his side; he can use the restroom by himself because Alaya is there to watch over him. But the dog isn't allowed in his school, reports "Today." The boy, Andrew Stevens, is 12 years old but, according to his school, functions at a kindergarten ...