Tool licence:
This assessment tool is free for personal use. For COMMERCIAL use, please contact us.
Canine Sound Sensitivity assessment tool.
The Lincoln Sound Sensitivity Scale (LSSS) for dogs is a widely used, validated and reliable tool used to assess your dog’s reactivity to noise.
Key validations:
- Noise fear/phobia assessment
- Management of problems
- Screening of shelter dogs
- Research tool
Usage
1. As a clinical tool to assess whether or not a dog has a noise fear/phobia requiring treatment.
2. To improve the management of problems relating to noise fears in dogs, and also as a research tool, to evaluate new treatments against others assessed using this instrument – see related publications.
3. In the screening of shelter dogs at the time of relinquishment, or working dogs to predict their need for remedial intervention.
The tool
LSSS is a 17 item questionnaire with each item relating to a specific sign.
Each is scored for intensity and frequency to generate an overall, measure of severity of that sign and the total score of 16 of these items indicates the severity of the problem.
Product sheet:
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