The trick is that I'm specifically looking for information about tasks...

My son's service dog specifically does these tasks among others on top of the emotional support that she provides for him...

1. Deep Pressure in response to anxiety/panic/tantrums
2. Keeps him from wandering (started with tethering and graduated to just redirecting)
3.Inserts herself between him or redirects him from danger and strangers
4. keeps him from sleepwalking out of the house
5. leads him out of the house in case of fire alarm (the alarm disorientates him and panics him and makes him walk into things or go the wrong direction)
6. keeps him in the yard
7.redirects him from repetitive or self harm behavior
8. alerts us when my son starts becoming disorientated from exposure to allergens (highly allergic to two different things that can be life threatening)

but these are not the only things his service dog does for him, a service dog for a SPD child must also be adept at reading cues and double as a therapy dog. When we first got Shadow for Lazarus he couldn't handle all kinds of sensory input including animals... I was highly skeptical that it would actually be a good fit for our family but it ended up being the best thing we ever did and has made my son more high functioning than therapy alone could have ever done. Of course individual tasks would be different in every case because no child is exactly the same.

Blessings,
Zoey

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My son had continuous problems with traffic, bolting out into the street, suddenly seeing a car and freaking out and going the wrong direction because he was disorientated, judging the distance, speed of the car, judging the step on the curb, getting disorientated from the lights and the car sounds. He is diagnosed with SPD... nothing else. Besides his allergies that is his only disorder.

Blessings,
Zoey