[Njagdu] Interesting information that may be helpful to someone.

[blind411]

Trish,

                This is excellent information! Thanks for posting it here.
If you haven't done so, yet, would you please post it to the NAGDU list?
Thanks a bunch!

 

Marion

 

 

 

 

From: Njagdu [mailto:njagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Trish Ebel
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:41 PM
To: New Jersey Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: [Njagdu] Interesting information that may be helpful to someone.

 

    While working with one of the Bergen county school districts we came
across this problem, so I just wanted to share some helpful information.

 

In a situation where one student is allergic to dogs and another uses a
service dog, the student using the service animal should be accommodated.
However, there needs to be some thought given to the student with allergies.
When they are in a class together, they should be spacially separated. Here
is just such an idea from the Department of Justice's document, Revised ADA
Requirements; Service Animals. This is in regard to the new regulations
published in 2010.

 

*	Allergies and fear of dogs are not valid reasons for denying access
or refusing service to people using service animals. When a person who is
allergic to dog dander and a person who uses a service animal must spend
time in the same room or facility, for example, in a school classroom or at
a homeless shelter, they both should be accommodated by assigning them, if
possible, to different locations within the room or different rooms in the
facility.

http://www.ada.gov/service_animals_2010.htm

 

The Job Accommodation Network has suggestions for this kind of scenario in
the workplace. Some of those ideas would not and cannot work in a school
setting, but some of them might help to improve the situation. For example,
perhaps a portable air purifier could be used in the class room and/or a
HEPA filter could be used for the ventilation system for that room. Also,
perhaps the student with the service animal could agree to use a dander
control product from the veterinarian or local pet store. The school could
also make for certain that the class room is cleaned regularly; dusted,
vacuumed, floors washed, etc. Here is the link to the JAN document.

http://askjan.org/corner/vol02iss01.htm

 

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