[nagdu] Videos

[Bryan Brown]

That's a very good point, I'm all the way in Wisconsin,,,

    Bryan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hope Paulos" <hope.paulos at maine.edu>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] Videos


> 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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