[nagdu] Guide dog Schools

[Tami Kinney]

Glad to hear that, and excited to see you on your way. /grin/

It seems that there is less, er, confusion about the matter of us
partials is waning in the resource community, which is nice to know.
Even five or six years ago, I was seriously bummed out to discover that
having lost the ability to read with my eyeballs in any meaningful way
-- or without excruciating headaches -- did not, de fact, make me blind
enough to adaptive tools or a guide dog or ... Some of that -- most of
it -- has to do with my state's VR agency, since I needed an O&M
instructor's evaluation to move ahead with the one application I was
still sort of following through on with a program. Sure enough, I was
not in need of a guide and would almost certainly screw it up because of
my really great vision which I used to navigate and pick out curbs when
I was traveling with the cane under sleepshade... I was also, it
appears, using my really great vision to perform household tasks
undersleepshade without any problem at all or need for instruction from
the instructor who then wrote in her report that I was using my really
great vision. Apparently, in the Juno walk, which I asked to do under
sleepshade but the evaluator decided to just skip that part, she could
see that I was using that really great vision of mine. to read street
signs, which is how I knew where I was on the route I had chosen around
my own neighborhood! So I trained my own dog, who adjust just fine to my
ongoing loss of vision and the glitches in my handling because I still
get confused at times about who actually knows what's right under our
feet and up ahead. /lol/ I'm finally seeming to reach some crossover
point where I don't have to remind myself that I don't see what I think
I see just because some light and color is still making it past my
retinae into my optic cortext which can't resist forming images out of
it... It's automatic to me now to just go around not beliving a thing I
see, so Mitzi appreciates that, too. /smile/

Best luck, and I am looking forward to hearing of your further
adventures iwith your new dog! /smile/

Tami

On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 16:11 +0000, Robert Hooper wrote:
> Yes, thankfully it's nothing I will have to deal with either, unless some of my vision miraculously returns. I have slightly more than light perception, and I'm not worried about that being an issue--and, more importantly, neither is the instructor who assessed me.
> 
> Robert Hooper
> Hooper.90 at buckeyemail.osu.edu
> The Ohio State University
> 553 Morrill Tower
> 1900 Cannon Drive
> Columbus, Ohio 43210
> (740) 856-8195
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cindy Ray
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 8:39 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Guide dog Schools
> 
> I was thinking maybe they might, but since it isn't an issue for me, I wasn't completely sure. Also, in my last class, I don't think there was anyone with my instructor who qualified as someone who would need to. That's good information.
> 
> Cindy
> 
> On Jul 12, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Robert Hooper wrote:
> 
> > Hello:
> > 
> > During my interview with a trainer from The Seeing Eye in June, my remaining vision was assessed. Although I don't have enough vision to affect a dog's work, the trainer explained the reason for the assessment to me, adding that if I had too much vision, then I would have to use sleep shades. So, it appears as though they do allow the use of sleep shades during training if they believe that any remaining vision might interfere with or compromise a dog's working ability. 
> > Sincerely,
> > Robert Hooper
> > Hooper.90 at buckeyemail.osu.edu
> > The Ohio State University
> > 553 Morrill Tower
> > 1900 Cannon Drive
> > Columbus, Ohio 43210
> > (740) 856-8195
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cindy Ray
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 8:17 AM
> > To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> > Subject: Re: [nagdu] Guide dog Schools
> > 
> > One concern they have is that you are going to let the dog do its work. If nyou attempt to use your vision more than you are truly able, or your ability to travel very well with that vision is used too much, the dog will soon learn it doesn't have to work. I think that would be a concern for any school. I think that's cool that GDF would have you wear sleep shades if you had some vision. I don't think TSE does, or they didn't used to. Some students wanted to do that. My information isn't that current, so don't consider it the last word.
> > 
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