[NAGDU] student eligibility

Wed Mar 13 21:16:02 UTC 2024

Hi,  I am 73, retired, and almost full time babysitter of my 1.5 year old grandson. July 2023 I just got my first guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind in Calif. I used a long cane for decades before this. I get a lot of rides from my husband who is also retired. But I also like to go places on bus or paratransit on my own when my husband is busy.
Now that I have the dog, I try to walk her (and I mean longer walks of at least a mile or more) twice a day with shorter walk in between. But the past 2 months she hasn't been walked as much as I would like because I had to have foot surgery and my old knee injury is acting up. But usually with my knee brace on I can walk her at least a mile.  She goes to a lot of doctor appointments and loves to go shopping especially at grocery stores! When I was at at GDB getting dog training, they told us the oldest person they matched with a guide dog was in her 90s! But when they evaluated me at home to see if I qualified for a dog, I had to give them a list of at least 3 places where I walk at least half a mile.and then they made me walk with my cane for half a mile and then with Juno for half a mile.
I don't know how that compares with other guide schools
Good luck
debbie.

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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>
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> 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
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> > On Mar 13, 2024, at 1:46 PM, Julie A. Orozco via NAGDU
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> 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
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> > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 10:38 AM
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> > 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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