[nagdu] Videos

[Hope Paulos]

Hi.  It was much different for me.  I had the phone interview 
with Dave Darr I think but  I  didn't have to submit a video.  
Instead, Becky Cook came to do a home interview.  She brought her 
dog, Euro (who was a breeder dog) for me to see what a dog 
wearing the harness looked like.  We also did the Juno walk, and 
she let me walk with Euro (while she held the leash because he 
was not trained for guide commands).  It just gave me a chance to 
see what the shepherd gait was like.  Beigaret is my first guide  
dog.  The reason they didn't require that I submit a video, was 
because I'm in Maine- and the drive was not that long- about 8 
hours.  Bryan, I forgot where you live, but they often require 
clients who live far away (not in New England) to submtit videos, 
I believe because doing a home visit would be costly since they'd 
have to most likely pay for a plane ticket.
Hope and Beignet from Fidelco

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bryan Brown" <bryanbrown at solarus.biz
>To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog 
Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:11:30 -0600
>Subject: Re: [nagdu] Videos

>Tracy,

>    When I applied to FIDELCO the video took place of the home 
visit, I'm
>not sure if that is the case with everyone who applies to FIDELCO 
but that
>was the way it was done with me, I also had a telephone interview 
that took
>about an hour.  I'm pretty sure that they can get a good idea of 
your speed
>by how fast you are walking on the video.  Tarik is not my first 
guide, he is
>my first from FIDELCO, but he is not my first guide.  When I 
applied I had a
>good idea of what characteristics I wanted in a guide, that may 
have played
>a part also.  I have very good orientation skills and very good 
mobility
>skills, both of those attributes, "I believe" can be recognized 
through a
>video pretty well.

>That's just how it worked for me, I'm not sure if that's the way 
it's always
>done, maybe if the school had some deeper concerns they might 
have sent
>someone out to visit with me.  I think also by skipping the home 
visit, they
>can save some money and speed up the process.

>    Bryan and Tarik from FIDELCO
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net
>To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org
>Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 12:03 PM
>Subject: [nagdu] Videos


>> Are these videos in place of, or in addition to, an instructor 
visit
>> during the application process?
>> If they're in place of a visit, I wonder how effective they are?  
Of
>> course, I'm not a video-oriented person, since I can't see them.  
But it
>> seems like a person would see a lot more, um, in person.  Could 
one really
>> tell speed accurately, from a video?  Would one catch things 
like my
>> habbit of occasionally talking to my dog as we walk down the 
street?
>> Not to mention that I like to meet an actual person, face to 
face.  When
>> TSE came out to see me during my application, we walked with my 
old dog,
>> then did a Juno walk, and the instructor even showed me the way 
they do
>> corrections, which is different than GDB.
>> It just seems to me that both parties get a better feel for 
things in
>> person.
>> Tracy



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