[nabs-l] Training centers

[Arielle Silverman]

Yes, there are two separate claims here. One is that NOMC's trained in
structured discovery *cane travel*--whether blind or sighted-- might
not know how to train guide dog teams. That claim is probably valid.
The second claim is that blind people cannot train guide dogteams even
if they have education in dog psychology, etc. I think this second
claim is problematic, and anybody making this generalization about
blind people needs evidence to back it up, in my opinion.
Arielle

On 8/14/14, Karl Martin Adam via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> 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
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