[nagdu] New to list

[Ted Shelly]

Angie,

Thanks for the welcome.  I did find the Hadley course useful, although I
probably would have preferred to just read the material and skip the
lessons.

Can I ask why you decided to switch providers?  

Ted 

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Angie Matney
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 4:04 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] New to list

Hi Ted,

Welcome to the list. I am working my second guide, a female German Shepherd
named Yani from The Seeing Eye in Morristown, NJ. My first dog, a yellow Lab
named Glaze from Guide Dogs for the Blind, retired in January and still
lives with me. 

Did you find the Hadley course useful? It sounds like it might be a great
tool for someone who is considering a guide dog.

Welcome again,

Angie



On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:47:47 -0500, Ted Shelly wrote:

>Hello all,

>I just joined the list and I'm hoping to pick up some good information 
>on guide dogs.  I have been contemplating for some time the idea of 
>getting a dog and today I am putting in the mail applications to two 
>providers - Fidelco and Guide Dogs for the Blind.

>For the past few months I've been doing my homework on the subject..  
>I've done the Hadley School's course, which has a lot of good 
>information.  I've downloaded and read several books from Bookshare and 
>I've read through the web sites of several providers.  I chose to apply 
>to Fidelco because they are close by and come to your home for 
>training.  I'm also applying to GDB for several reasons:  They have a 
>facility in Oregon, where I used to live and still have friends and 
>family.  Also I once met one of their directors and he gave me a good
feeling about the quality of their program.

>I would be interested in other resources that anyone on the lists knows of.
>In particular, sources of books or articles that are available in 
>electronic form.  I checked out the nagdu web site, but there seem to 
>be many broken links.  The newsletter does not seem to be available at all.

> I'll be interested to monitor this list and observe the issues and 
>comments of all of you.

>Best regards,

>Ted Shelly
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