[nagdu] guides at NFB training centers

[Marsha Drenth]

All,
Well, using a service animal that would be only used for a task as a hearing dog or a balance dog, would be different then a dog that does all of the tasks. How could an NFB center say, well, you can use your dog to provide balance, or alert as a hearing dog would, but your dog can not guide. My disabilities all mitigate the need for a dog to use all three tasks. I am not saying that they would allow it, in which ever form a task that a dog helped with. I have no clue if anyone has gone to a center who has required a dog for just balance or hearing. I can say that NFB centers do not handle additional disabilities very well, at least from those who I know personally who have those additional disabilities and who have been to a center.
 

Marsha drenth  
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> On Sep 3, 2015, at 8:05 PM, larry d keeler via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> That's what William and I were talking about last night. For example, what
> if someone came to training center with a ptsd or hearing dog they needed.
> Or, another friend of mine who uses her dog for balance as well. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Marsha Drenth via
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> Subject: [nagdu] guides at NFB training centers
> 
> 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  
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