[nagdu] Caps Lock and Other Things Re: question for GDB grads

[Nicole B. Torcolini at Home]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Criminal Justice Major" <orleans24 at comcast.net>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 9:12 PM
Subject: [nagdu] question for GDB grads


> hI, ALL,
> i HAVE A QUESTION FOR WHOSE WHO GRADUATED FROM gdb.
> wAS WONDERING IF THEY TRAIN THOSE WHO HAVE HAD TO BE WHEELCHAIR BOUND TO 
> TRAIN WITH A GUIDE DOG?
> oNLY OTHER TWO SCHOOLS OR THREE THAT i KNOW THAT DO WHEELCHAIR TRAINING 
> ARE segdi (sOUTHEASTERN gUIDE dOGS iNCORPORATED), GDF (Guide Dog 
> Foundation) and TSE (The Seeing Eye), but The Seeing Eye will only train 
> grads from their school to work with a guide dog while using a power chair 
> or even a walker.
> Would GDD (Guide Dogs of the Desert) might have a possibility of such?.
> I'm asking while I'm still waiting to hear back from my vocational rehab 
> counselor.
> Originally, I was going to go back to Vocational Rehabilitation for 
> refresher on orientation and mobility to hopefully be able to go through 
> GDF for another successor dog.
> Due to my seizure disorder however, I may have to go the route of using a 
> power wheelchair.
> That would only happen after I've hd a strong seizure happen and have no 
> strength for a few days.
> I know there's plenty of options out there for me still as of this time.
> *Smiles*
> I'd love to go back to Pilot for another successor, but because they don't 
> plan nor will they do wheelchair training to partner a blind individual 
> utilizing a walker or motorized chair, this sort of puts me in a bind.
> Bibi, husband Dale and son Odie
> medical alert service dog
> the happy spirited bounty labra wolf
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