[nagdu] FW: Why good O&M training is so important

[Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)]

Even if this person has minimual skills, so what? We were all FNG's once upon a time.
And if this person were sighted and for whatever reson needed some extra help, we wouldn't be slamming him and the technology he uses.


-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cindy Ray
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 3:39 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] FW: Why good O&M training is so important

I think the issues of the person's independence vs. the whether or not to have ATS are separate things, and I think it is a shame to use someone with minimal skills to show the need. The ATS should be appropriate and should be just another tool. I would like more of them myself out where I am and some other places, too, but I can function without them. In the airport I do enlist help, but now that I have a lot of time between some of my flights, I am using it to explore airports, which I am finding liberating. People will use whatever assistance they need but that, like ATS, is a tool and need not be a requirement. I hate to think of someone going off on the inconvenience of traveling around. Hope this made some sense.

Cindy


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