[nagdu] college & guide dogs

Sat May 30 15:42:54 UTC 2009

It's Nicole; I'm the one who mentioned the GPS.  Do you have any kind of 
Braille notetaker to which you can add the GPS or would you need to buy a 
whole new unit?  I use a BrailleNote with the GPS.  It's not always fool 
proof, though.  I also carry a Braille compass.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Katrin Andberg" <katrin at maplewooddog.com>
To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 6:23 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] college & guide dogs

Thank you all for the advice.  I will be commuting to campus from my home,
about a 30min commute via the train then subway then bus, so no need to
worry about on-campus housing.  James and I have done routes like that
before so once I learn the train schedule and where the subway and bus stops
are I'm not too concerned about that being an issue.  What I am more
concerned about is learning routes on such a large campus (I'll be going to
UMass Boston).  But James is rather good at learning to guide me to specific
places so I think if we go early enough before school starts and practice,
practice, practice the routes, we should be ok.  Thanks for the idea on
looking into a GPS whomever that was.  That might be a good thing for me as
when I get really, really lost I tend to panic and everything starts to look
the same and my ability to remember left and right goes out the window, even
with a map and I'm generally pretty good with maps as long as I study them
well beforehand.

I am planning to go back to school for engineering.  That's what I
originally went for 7 years ago and what I'm still interested in.  I'm
looking into the college's disability office to see what I have to do to be
allowed to do things like tape record lectures and things like that and
James of course will go with me when I stop in there so I'm going to assume
they'll know about him that way and I guess if they have any issues they'll
bring it up then, but I hope it will be as you folks say and a non issue.

Thanks again

Katrin & James

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