[NAGDU] re-posting: books on guide dogs

Debbie Gabe debbiegabe at live.com
Mon Oct 31 22:41:52 UTC 2022


A friend suggested that I read Forward Together, which is on BARD. It's very detailed. The author used to work for many years at the Leader school in Michigan and her husband now works for Guide Dogs for the Blind in California.  It might have more detailed than you want, but as someone who worked for 50 years teaching deaf babies and their parents later blind adults and then after I retired  deciding if I wanted to apply for a dog after using a cane for decades, I loved it.  I recognized many of the teaching techniques that we used with young children during hearing testing.

I also thought the book Thunderdog, also on BARD, was great. I put off reading it for years because I assumed it was mostly about 9-11, but it actually was mostly about the author, Michael Hingson's life and his dogs.

Good luck
Debbie Gabe
NFB of Hawaii

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If you don't mind books generally for or about young people, here are a couple.

Follow my leader
Written in 1957 I think. Doesn't name any specific school, but if you've gone to a particular one you would recognize it by the street names. I read this book when I was seven, and though at the time, I had no idea what blind mobility and orientation was, I vowed right then that I would get one of those guide dogs someday. I had cane mobility from eight grade through graduating from high school, and my instructor knew I wanted to get a dog, some in the last year, she helped me learn some transition skills from a cane to a dog. I got my first dog, age 17, after high school, in 1975. All that nonsense to say this book inspired me and I never gave up on that dream. It also has a very positive view of blindness for the times.

Steve and the guide dogs
I don't know if this is available anymore, but this takes a different look at things and is about a teenage boy raising guide dog puppies.



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Hi all,
Re-posting as I realized that I forgot to change the greeting.
Do any of you know of any books on/about guide dogs that you'd recommend?
Preferibly non-fiction; I know there are ones about the different schools but I worry about current they are as things have likely changed. Just curious; look forward to any recommendations that any of you can provide me!! Thanks Madison _______________________________________________
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