[nagdu] college & guide dogs

Garry and Joy Relton relton30857 at cox.net
Sun May 31 19:26:51 UTC 2009


You are welcome.

I do want to say that there is no right to record lectures. That needs to be
checked out with the individual professors and the college. Many professors
use the materials in their lectures for books and other publications which
are part of their conditions of employment. Recording the entire lecture is
not the same as taking notes. It's just like recording a concert. It's not
legal and frankly not very polite. JMO.



-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Marion & Martin
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:34 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] college & guide dogs


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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