[NAGDU] Guide dogs for the deafblind.

Marianne Denning marianne at denningweb.com
Mon Mar 20 03:24:33 UTC 2017


It is sad that someone is deciding whether a guide dog would be helpful to
someone or not. There are guide dog schools in the U.S. that train dogs
specifically for people who are deafblind.

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 9:46 PM, Dr.dbTarzan via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Hello all. dbTarzan here.
> There are 320 thousand visually handicapped and one thousand
> guide dogs in Japan. On the other hand, there are 14
> thousand deafblind and only a few guide dogs for the
> deafblind. Almost people think that guide dogs are not
> suitable to the deafblind. I heard that many deafblind
> people use guide dogs in US. So I envy you.
>
> dbTarzan
>
>
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Marianne Denning, TVI, MA
Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired
(513) 607-6053



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