[nagdu] Literature about guide dogs

[Tracy Carcione]

Hi Cristel.
This question came up a couple years ago, too.  I don't think there's a lot 
written about it.  There's a bit in First Lady of the Seeing Eye, and 
mentions in a few other places. I think there's a bit in a Disney movie 
about Morris Frank, if you can take a Disney movie seriously.
We got the rights we have today because, starting with Morris Frank, people 
worked their butts off to get them.  Morris travelled the country, educating 
people about Seeing Eye dogs and working to get them accepted everywhere. 
He talked to friends, business associates, and legislators.  He got media 
people interested.  He got one of the big radio personalities of the time 
interested, and that person talked to his audience about how great guide 
dogs are.
I'm sure a lot of less well-known people worked on access rights in the same 
way, demonstrating how the dog helped them and talking to people about 
changing laws.  Now we have the laws, but the work still goes on.  Part of 
what NAGDU does is to advocate for better laws, and to work with people 
whose access rights have been denied.
I think sometimes people take our rights for granted, or think they were 
given to us by the government or something, but the truth is that our rights 
were gained by a lot of people working on it for a long time, and that work 
is still going on.
Tracy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christel Sogenbits" <christel.chrissu at gmail.com>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 3:58 PM
Subject: [nagdu] Literature about guide dogs


> Hello !
>
> I am hoping that  people who are in this list can help me.
> I am searching  literature and research works about guide dogs, their 
> users
> and anything related.
> I am starting to finish my first three years in university and need to do 
> my
> bachelours work and I am thinking of doing it  about how are the rights of
> guide dog users and guide dog trainers rights developed trought history in
> USA and in Estonia. Im thinking of  comparing them and allso doing
> interviews with guide dog users from both countries.
> Beacuse  Im studying law then Im very interested  about the law part  and
> rights and obligations allso.
> I think what  I mostly want to show with my work is that  if in Estonia
> there would be more and better laws for  protection of guide dog users and
> trainers then  more people would have courage to get them selves a guide 
> dog
> and be more active and integrated into the society.
> So if anybody knows any kind of literature  to recomend to me then
> please-please let me know!
> Thank you very very much!
> PS! In December we celebrated 20 years of training guide dogs in Estonia!
>
> Tervitades / With greetings
> Christel Sogenbits
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> E-mail: christel.chrissu at gmail.com
> Skype: christel.chrissu
>
>
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