[NAGDU] guide dog classes and the totally blind

[Julie Johnson]

I've been told that something like 90% of blind people have some amount of 
residual vision.  No idea where that number came from, but at any rate, it's 
quite a large number.  So based on math it would seem that quite a few 
people in guide dog classes would also have some vision.  I think at one 
time there was a notion that only totally blind people *needed* guide dogs. 
I think we know better and it's good that guide dog classes reflect a larger 
number of people with some amount of vision.  To me, it shows that attitudes 
of  the hierarchy of vision are perhaps fading.

Julie
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-----Original Message----- 
From: Dan Weiner via NAGDU
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 3:01 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Cc: Dan Weiner
Subject: [NAGDU] guide dog classes and the totally blind

Hello, beautiful people.

I'm curious about something, A GDB grad told me that most of their
clients now have some residual vision.

So here' s my question, is that true for all guide dog programs? And,
are there any programs where most of the class participants are totally
blind, or is this across the board.

This is total curiosity and not meant as a value judgment, criticism of
any program or anything else. I, myself am totally blind.


In all of my classes there wee people with residual vision so maybe it
is indeed the way it is.


Enjoy a wonderful morning, guys.


Dan and the Parker Nut



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