[nagdu] Third party reporting by other guide dog users

Thu Jun 14 18:53:06 UTC 2012

Yeah, the school's evaluator will do a more accurate job of evaluating your 
mobility skills.  they know you had mobility training - was mandatory when 
you went to get a dog in the past.  Now, the younger mobility instructors go 
to sessions about guide dogs so they will be able to tell their students 
about guide dogs.  O&M students come to The Seeing Eye from all over the 
country to spend three days of classes, actually working a dog under 
sleepshades, and observing guide dog students while they are there.  the 
week they are there, it is really fun for us because they get to eat lunch 
with us and sit at our tables and they and we get to interact then.  it is a 
great learning opportunity for them.

I remember the days when the O&M instructors wwere in a war against the 
guide dog schools and it finally dawned on them that they weren't going to 
be replaced with guide dog schools.  O&M instruction is still required 
before one gets a guide dog.  they have now learned that they compliment 
each other and no more jealousies! The O&M instructors teach the mobility 
skills to blind folks and the guide dog schools teach another tool in which 
to utilize the skills we learned with the O&M instructors.

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jenny Keller" <jlperdue3 at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Third party reporting by other guide dog users

> I'm waiting for one more medical piece of information to be sent in and 
> then they will schedule the home visit.
>
> I can't wait till that paper is faxed in and I can do the home visit and 
> Juno walk.
>
> Our mobility instruction person is swamped, or so they say, and is booked 
> till the middle of July, and still hasn't even called me to make an 
> appointment to do an evaluation, so the school is going to just do their 
> own considering I have had a dog before, and the admissions person I deal 
> with said they could do a better evaluation than a mobility instructor 
> anyway.
>
> Jenny
> On Jun 13, 2012, at 6:18 PM, Lyn Gwizdak wrote:
>
>> That other school probably just wanted to hear both sides of the story, 
>> that's all.  Did you get a home visit from the school you chose?  When 
>> the selection committee goes over all information on applicants, they use 
>> all info but would never base their decision just on what another school 
>> said about you.  They've done this enough to be able to make good 
>> charactor judgements about an applicant and take it from there.
>>
>> Lyn and Landon
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny Keller" <jlperdue3 at gmail.com>
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:47 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Third party reporting by other guide dog users
>>
>>
>>> When I applied to the school I'm applying to, they asked me which school 
>>> I had gotten Brooks from.
>>>
>>> I was honest about it and told them about what had happened, from 
>>> beginning to end and asked them if that would knock me out of the 
>>> running for a guide from their school.
>>>
>>> they assured me it wouldn't.
>>>
>>> I also called another school and they said they would have to speak to 
>>> the previous school, which made me very nervous because I knew they 
>>> wouldn't have good things to say about me.
>>>
>>> that's why I stuck with the school I am applying to.
>>>
>>> Jenny
>>> On Jun 13, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Lyn Gwizdak wrote:
>>>
>>>> Cindy,
>>>> Are you refering to the fact that a school will ask you where you've 
>>>> been for a dog in the past if you weren't going for a first dog?  Or do 
>>>> you have to tell nosey guide dog users about your previous school?
>>>>
>>>> Schools will ask you what specific programs have you attended on the 
>>>> application and I've always told them.  If I had a problem with the 
>>>> previous school, I would talk to the new school about the problem so 
>>>> you are above board on everything.
>>>>
>>>> If guide dog users want to know about your schools attended or what the 
>>>> nature of problems you had with them - if there was any - you have the 
>>>> choice to say something or not.  If they have no need to know - they 
>>>> have no need to know, period.
>>>>
>>>> Lyn and Landon
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray at gmail.com>
>>>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
>>>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:29 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Third party reporting by other guide dog users
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> If a person changes schools, does that person really have an 
>>>>> obligation to say they are changing schools and why? I would, of 
>>>>> course, say I had been at another school, but I don't know that it is 
>>>>> their business why, is it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cindy Lou who is ignorant of these things.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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