[nabs-l] Training centers

[Valerie Gibson]

This is true And that might be a reason it's not done.  
If you were talking about a blind trainer teaching a blind student, and the trainer is affiliated with one school, that would   be different, but at centers, you've got many blind dog users that might come through, and no school is going to have the same training philosophy.

On Aug 14, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Karl Martin Adam <kmaent1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Valerie, it sounds to me like everything you say about why it would be hard for a blind person to teach O and M to someone with a dog would apply equally well to a sighted person trying to teach O and M to a person with a dog.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Valerie Gibson via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:04:56 -0600
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Training centers
> 
> Hi,
> I had this long message typed out on why i thought that a blind person could assist a guide dog user in travel...and then, I erased it.
> At first, saying that a blind person couldn't help a blind user who used a guide dog in travel struck a nerve with me