[nagdu] guides at NFB training centers

Marianne Denning marianne at denningweb.com
Thu Sep 3 20:09:31 UTC 2015


Marsha, I agree with what you are saying.  I have seen NFB change its
thinking on people who are blind and have additional issues but,
again, it needs to change faster than it is.

On 9/3/15, Marsha Drenth via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Something else that should be considered or asked when talking to the NFB
> centers, what about us persons that have additional disabilities like
> balance issues, are hard of hearing, and so on? Unlike a majority of the
> guide dog users on this list, I not only use my dog for guiding, but
> alerting, and balance. I am not the only one on this list that has a guide
> who performs many tasks. Honestly, most of the folks in the NFB don't even
> give those persons with additional disabilities a second glance and or
> treating us as second class NFB members. But back to my point, what if I
> wanted to go to one of the vest blindness centers available. Well, first, a
> center would not be able to accommodate my additional disabilities. And
> second, I would not be able to use my dog for the additional tasks in which
> she does.  Now, granted I really do not need to go to an NFB training
> center. This is my personal opinion, that if a person is specifically
> deafblind, they should not. Not. Absolutely not. Go to an NFB training
> center, but instead go to hknc. I know that hknc is not an NFB training
> center, nor practices the NFB training methods. So of course hknc will never
> be a place in which NFB members will value or hold to the NFB standards. Its
> really actually really sad, hknc is a good facility, and that although the
> NFB has a good handle on blindness skills, they are a lung lung way from
> getting deafblindness and other disabilities. Okay, I have said enough, back
> under my rock.
>
>
> Marsha drenth
> email: marsha.drenth at gmail.com
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> such, I may have used dictation and had made attempts to mitigate errors.
> Please do not be hesitant to ask for clarification as necessary.
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Marianne Denning, TVI, MA
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