[NAGDU] student eligibility

[Josh Kennedy]

Do people who are homemakers qualify to get guide dogs or guide horses?
Because that is what I am, a homemaker. I live in a rural town, the nearest
city is about an hour drive away and I have a farely large yard in back of
my house that is partially fenced in.


On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 1:54 PM Vanessa Lowery via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> I can only speak for The Seeing Eye, but they do want to know whether you
> are working, in college, or homemaker, or retired, etc. It depends on the
> individual whether working or not as to when they could be called into
> class. A number of the people who were in my last couple of classes were
> able to do work while at The Seeing Eye with their laptops. In fact, there
> were a couple of attorneys in my 2023 class who did work Using their
> laptops during some downtime. So it is not unusual for some people who
> already work remotely to bring some of their work with them. Same thing for
> students who are in class. It's a little bit less likely that a student
> would be in class at any other time other than the summertime, but there
> are exceptions. And my 2023 class, there were two high school students. I
> am assuming that they did classwork online.  Both were seniors in high
> school.
>
>
> Vanessa and the zoo
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Mar 13, 2024, at 1:46 PM, Julie A. Orozco via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I thought they asked those questions to get a sense of when the
> applicant
> > might be available for class. Someone who works or is in school will be
> less
> > available than someone who isn't working.
> >
> > Is that incorrect?
> >
> > Julie
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: NAGDU <nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Richard via NAGDU
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 10:38 AM
> > To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> > <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> > Cc: richardfiorello716 at gmail.com
> > Subject: [NAGDU] student eligibility
> >
> > Hi;
> >
> > I have noticed that the first question that many schools ask is are you
> > working.  As the bulk of the blind population ages I would hope that
> schools
> > would adjust their program to accommodate older students who may not be
> > working but are still active.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
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