[nagdu] Therapy dog

[Cindy Ray]

Well, I can't remember the name of the agency; I will have to ask again next
time I go to the hospital to volunteer as a chaplain. They are one of the
bigger ones in the country I think. They said that the dog would have to
have retired as a guide because it would confuse the dog if it switched
between guiding and a role of therapy dog. I kind of suggested that this
might be my decision and that I thought he was plenty capable of telling the
difference, and they got just a little snarky with me.
Cindy


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Even with the harness off, it's still a guide dog, and harnesses are not
necessary for service dog accessibility to apply, if they're trying to claim
that. Who are they anyway to tell you what functions your service dog can or
cannot perform? Are they guide dog trainers? This just sounds like prejudice
to me.
Donna & Hunter

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Except that the therapy dog program that refused me the opportunity to
certify my dog said that it confuses the dogs if they are doing both guide
work and therapy work. For instance, in a hospital, you would take the
harness off and let the person love on them or whatever, and at that point
the dog would not be a guide. Now, theoretically, in the read program you
would be taking off the harness. Of course, I'm just playing devil's
advocate there because I think it should all be a no brainer, and with those
kind of credentials and a well trained dog I don't see the difference
either.
Cindy


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Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 10:31 AM
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Subject: [nagdu] Therapy dog

Hello Karla and all,

I have been thinking of Karla's post and I have a few ideas I would like to
share.

First of all and most important is the issue of therapy dog.  The purpose of
getting a therapy dog certification is to be able to take a dog places where
a pet dog is not allowed.  A guide dog already has this certification.  To
be a READ dog the dog sits quietly and pays attention to the child who is
reading. 
A guide dog would do this.    Therefore the whole idea of getting the 
certification is totally unnecessary.

As for safety, I love the way schools always throw that out as a barrier to
anything they don't like.  Some schools even say a blind child can't use a
white cane for safety reasons.  This is just hysteria to put up another
barrier.

As for Karla's qualifications, they should be thrilled to have a PhD and
retired professor assisting with their students.  Instead they don't
understand how a blind person can help a child read.  Really?  Give me a
break.  When my children were learning to read they would read out loud to
me and when they came to a word they didn't know I would have them spell it
and we would sound it out together.  Again, the school is putting up another
barrier.

So lets remove all the barriers and what do we have left?  Plain and simple 
prejudice.   If it were me I would first decide if I really wanted to be in 
such an environment or if there were a better place to volunteer where I
would be appreciated like the public library reading program.  If I decided
to fight the prejudice I would first  talk to the person putting up all the
barriers and I would tell them exactly how I felt discriminated against by
their behavior.  If they still insisted on their position I would go to the
next level up all the way to the Superintendent of schools and if they still
closed the door to me I would contact the media.

Just my two cents but really the therapy dog certification is not the issue
here.

JODY ??
thunderwalker321 at gmail.com

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