[nabs-l] Training centers

[Valerie Gibson]

I couldn't agree more.
I am currently in the process of training my own guide dog, and, not that I'd ever do this, but if I were helping to train or training a guide dog for someone else or was affiliated with a school  where I believed in it's training philosophies, I don't see why i wouldn't be able to train the guide dog team, after having first assessed the team as individuals and as a team as a whole.  But as stated in my last email, there  are too many schools with too many philosophies on  how training should be done and the breed of     dog best suited for any     trainer to come to a center and say, "I'll train the lot".  Not all guide dog schools agree on training methods, which     is why you have so many schools in the first place. 
The      only thing that I'd have real hesitation on in regards to dog training is aggressive dogs, and I hate to say it, but I've seen some aggressive guide dogs.  I had a guide dog do some grand standing to my dog in training, who was at the time four months old.


On Aug 14, 2014, at 3:49 PM, Arielle Silverman via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> 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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