[nagdu] another reason for having your own harness

[Lyn Gwizdak]

How about Toni Eames group, AAIDP - hope that's the letters for that group 
for service dog users?  That's terrible about CCI never giving title to 
their dogs to the users.  Super paternalistic, I'd say!

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Katrin Andberg" <katrin at maplewooddog.com>
To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 5:59 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] another reason for having your own harness


> Oh and my friend with the mobility disability is finding it incredibly
> disheartening that there is no large user based group for people with
> physical mobility disabilities and service dogs as there is here with 
> NAGDU.
> She has searched high and low for a user group this organized and well run
> and nothing even remotely exists for her or others.  So there is no large 
> or
> even small organized effort to try to educate people and possibly put
> pressure on programs like CCI to change their policies.  The fact that 
> user
> groups such as NAGDU exist are incredibly helpful for people with vision
> disabilities and there really are not any other groups like it in 
> existence
> for people with other types of disabilities in part due to that while many
> people have mobility or other physical disabilities there is rarely one
> unifying thing about them other than that broad base "mobility disability"
> category and within that category things are incredibly varied and diverse
> that it is difficult to pull people together under a common goal such as
> NADGU does.
>
>
>
> Katrin
>
>
>
> Katrin Andberg
>
> <mailto:katrin at maplewooddog.com> katrin at maplewooddog.com
>
>
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