[nagdu] O&M services with a dog

[Tracy Carcione]

Hi Cindy and Margo.
What do you tell them you need?  It's been about 30 years, but I think I
told the last O&M person I tried to work with that I needed to find the
best way to work a complicated intersection.  I remember he was a nice
guy, but not very helpful with my problem.
When I was working with a TSE instructor on something or other, she
pointed out that the crosswalk was shortly after a sloping driveway, which
was a helpful landmark. She pointed out that something else I wanted Ben
to find was just past a big opening. So do you tell the O&M guy you need
that kind of landmark?  If I know the kinds of landmarks I need, I can
just figure it out on my own, which is pretty much what I do.  But it was
helpful to have the instructor point out things I hadn't noticed.
So what, specifically, do you tell the O&M person you need?
Tracy

> I know that lots of these folks don't know much about dog use, but as they
> show us a route, can't we tell them what we need? That's how I've dealt
> with any here.
>
> Cindy Lou
>
> On Oct 13, 2012, at 9:33 AM, Margo and Arrow wrote:
>
>> We have an O and M instructor in this area who's very familiar with how
>> guide dog teams work.  I hear she's leaving, though.  I think one or two
>> of the O and M instructors at our private blindness agency know about
>> dogs, too, but, yes, those are few and far between.  I know some of the
>> schools offer O and M people the opportunity to work with a dog, etc.,
>> but I wonder how much they get to learn in the space of a couple of
>> days.  In other words, do they learn enough to be able to help someone
>> learn a route or to know what the dog is or isn't dong or the owner is
>> or isn't doing.
>>
>> Margo and Arrow
>>
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