I'm not sure from which organisation, but one of my best pals has a trained retriever from one of these orgs for his son
You take it as a pup for bonding, then it goes off at a certain age, then back to you once trained
They're not specially bred (at least at this org anyway) they're bought then trained.
They DO help. A lot. Just to calm the kiddies down and relax them
I'm really unsure about the spaniel suggestion tbh. They're a handful... I was raised with them all my life and they were perfectly trained gundogs and as lovely and trustworthy as they are, they're a