[NAGDU] Guide dog schools employing blind people

[Tara Briggs]

 Wow! I think you have a fascinating story! If you don’t mind, will you be willing to share more. Help me understand. What country do you live in? Do you help train actual guide dogs? What part of the training do you participate in? I am looking forward to your response. And by the way I agree! Walking a dog as a blind person and walking your dog is so the person or completely different! Thank you so much for responding to this thread and I hope we can hear much from you.
Tara

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> On Oct 5, 2018, at 2:40 AM, Monse via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all. Here in my country there is the oldest guide dog school that was
> founded by a blind person, but its founder is not involved in the training
> of guide dogs at all.
> I'm an owner trainer and I'm currently working as a guide dog trainer for an
> assistance dogs school.
> I think it's completely possible to work with clients during the matching
> process, but not in the same way as sighted instructors. I haven't had the
> chance to try it though. Blind people here have the idea that a blind person
> just couldn't do it, which limits my possibilities.
> As for the length of training, It might take more time, kind of 2 months
> more, but the advantage that I find is that the dog is getting used to work
> with a real blind person and is having the opportunity to solve problems as
> if he/she were already working in real life during the training process. we
> train one dog at a time, so yes we can work several dogs in a day.
> 
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