[nagdu] college & guide dogs

[Marion & Martin]

Joy,
    I was going to post a message, but thought i would wait to see what sort 
of great advice came from others. I'm happy I did, as you saved me a lot of 
time! (smile)

Fraternally yours,
Marion gwizdala



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry and Joy Relton" <relton30857 at cox.net>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] college & guide dogs


> 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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