[nagdu] college & guide dogs

[Garry and Joy Relton]

You don't need to do anything. You have a right to live in the dorms with
your dog and the work with him/her throughout the campus and have him/her
attend class. There isn't any need to notify them about anything. The only
issue that I can think of is if you had a roommate who was allergic to dogs.
As far as parking your dog you have the same responsibilities for clean up
as you would any other public place. That's generally easily worked out. By
that I mean you need to find a safe place and have the ability to locate a
trash can. By safe I am referring to any debree that might not be safe for
the dog as well as late night walking with your dog. I used dogs through all
three of my degrees. I had professors in law school who put my dog on the
seating chart. I even had a professor in undergrads who used to swear that
he could get a reading on how interesting he was by how my dog responded. If
she was sleeping too much he figured it wasn't too interesting. The funny
thing was that he was one of those people who would move around a talk a
bit. Sometimes, he'd put on different hats to role play different people.
One day he did this and put his fist down a little hard on his desk at the
slide projector and sparks came out of one of his hats. That got Vicki's
attention for sure. 

I found that my class mates on campus were very friendly toward the dog and
learned easily what the rules were with respect to talking to or petting
her. A lot will depend on your attitude. If you are outgoing friendly and
yet firm about the rules and their need I believe that other students will
respect your needs and wishes. 

Best of luck to both of you.

Joy with Belle

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Katrin Andberg
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 7:31 PM
To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nagdu] college & guide dogs


I have been thinking for some time about going back to school and was
wondering if anyone on the list had any helpful hints about going through
the college process with a guide.  What did you have to do to notify the
school you have a guide?  Were there any problems navigating a campus with
your guide?  Did you run into problems with professors or other staff or
students because of your guide?  Anything else that was helpful or not
helpful to you?  

 

I remember last time I tried university it was 7 years ago before I had any
supports and to this day I have no clue what that campus looked like or how
to get around it.  I knew how to get to 1 building and then sort of navigate
in that building, usually ended up at the wrong place and needed someone to
help me back to class.  Needless to say my college experience was fairly
limited and I didn't last 2 semesters.  Now with James and other supports I
hope to try again and have more success.

 

Thanks for any discussion.

 

Katrin & James

 

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