[blindkid] Please unsubscribe me
Heather
craney07 at rochester.rr.com
Fri Jul 2 01:58:21 UTC 2010
Lots of people go to the centers to learn other things, like technology
training, braille, many compitant blind people are great with computers but
can't read braille well or at all, or can live on their own, but with a
lower quality of life because of not having such skills as cooking with a
stove vs a microwave, or purchasing clothing that requires any but the
simplest machine washing, because they can't set washers and dryers or iron,
etc. No guide dog school would accept someoone for training if their cane
skills were not already very good, so while the institute might reasonably
ask them for a few lessons on some new technique or with a demo of a new
type of cane, to leave their dog in it's crate, not using it at all however
during the training would more or less distroy the dog handler relationship
and potentially the dog, period. Hope that helps explain better.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Cunningham" <kim at gulfimagesphoto.com>
To: " (for parents of blind children)NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List"
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Please unsubscribe me
Heather,
I have a child who is attending one of the NFB training centers. One of the
many reasons I wanted my daughter to attend the training center was to
receive intensive O&M. I want her to feel free to travel anywhere, anytime
she wants. Why would anyone want to take their guide dog to a facility where
you would be learning cane travel? From what I understand, you can only get
a guide dog AFTER you show competent cane travel skills. So, if someone
wishes to attend a program at one of the centers, shouldn't you embrace all
the training while there?
Just my thoughts on the subject. Have a nice summer.
Kim
--- On Thu, 7/1/10, Heather <craney07 at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
From: Heather <craney07 at rochester.rr.com>
Subject: [blindkid] Please unsubscribe me
To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)"
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 8:55 AM
I always seem to be rubbing someone's fur the wrong way on this list, and
that coupled with some disturbing information I have just come across has
caused me to wish to unsubscribe from this and one other NFB list that I was
on. That one had a link to unsubscribe, but this one directs me to a web
page and I am at school right now, about to go out of town, and need to
catch a bus, so no time to go poking around on the internet, when the server
at school is running very sluggishly due to online administration of finals
for summer courses today. Long story very short, I was under the impression
that NFB's antiguidedog sentaments had disipated, but I have just spoken
with two individuals who were being told at an NFB training center that
their dogs had to stay in their rooms and that they were not to use them. I
saw this come up in NAGDU and GDUI lists many many years ago, and assumed
that something so backwards thinking and detremental to guide dog
teams would have been resolved. You know what they say about assumptions.
Bottom line, I do not feel that I am being an honest and responsible
advocate of guide dogs if I continue to interact with an organization that
premotes such detremental ideas. There are some awsum people on this list,
and everyone, even the people I don't particularly like, all have awsum
kids, it's about the list affiliation, and nothing more. If anyone ever
wishes to write me off list in the future, my email address is
craney07 at rochester.rr.com. Have a nice summer all.
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