[nagdu] O&M skills

Steven Johnson blinddog3 at charter.net
Fri Jan 31 23:13:59 UTC 2014 

Hi Amanda,

I am not sure, but I do believe it is specifically a home-based program out
of Leader Dog in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Michigan.  They would cover
all of your costs for traveling to and from Detroit, room and board, food
etc.  Something worth considering.  If you have any other questions, just
ask away.

Steve


-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] O&M skills

Would they come to Montreal?

Amanda

> On Jan 31, 2014, at 11:37 AM, "Larry D. Keeler" <lkeeler at comcast.net>
wrote:
> 
> i KNOW SOME FOLKS WILL DO IT PRIVATELY BUT YOU WOULD ALSO HAVE TO PAY 
> THEM. L
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <cape.amanda at gmail.com>
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> 
>> Me too. I live in Montreal and am forever on a waiting list.
>> 
>> Amanda
>> 
>>> On Jan 31, 2014, at 11:22 AM, "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Melissa.
>>> Please do ask.  I think there are lots of people who'd like to know,
including me.
>>> Tracy
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "melissa R green" 
>>> <graduate56 at juno.com>
>>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
>>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 11:00 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] O&M skills
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> I wonder if there is a way to get around being a client of rehab 
>>>> just to get services like O&M.
>>>> there just has to be a way.
>>>> I have a really good instructor who also worked at a guide dog school.
>>>> Not all people are working or going to school.
>>>> they just want to live their life.
>>>> Might have to ask my instructor.
>>>> I am curious now.
>>>> best wishes,
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Melissa R Green
>>>> "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole 
>>>> staircase." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy Carcione" 
>>>> <carcione at access.net>
>>>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>>>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 1:17 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] O&M skills
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Julie M.
>>>> I agree wholeheartedly.  Being afraid to go out is very sad.  It 
>>>> also disgusts me to hear of people who want to get training but 
>>>> can't find anyone to provide it.  It ought to be a basic thing 
>>>> provided by any state agency for the blind, to help any blind 
>>>> person who asks for it get timely training in O&M.  Is there 
>>>> anything we can do about this?  And I don't mean just telling 
>>>> everyone to take several months out of their lives to attend an NFB
center.  That's useful, but not always practical, IMO.
>>>> 
>>>> Hector Chevigny, in My Eyes Have A Cold Nose, wrote that he thought 
>>>> it was better for newly-blinded people to get a dog and get on 
>>>> about their lives, rather than waiting on some agency for service 
>>>> forever, and, often enough, being taught by the agency that he or 
>>>> she needed sighted help for everything.  Now, that was written in 
>>>> the 1940's or early '50's, but I can still see some merit in the
argument.
>>>> It's a darned good thing that Leader has its cane class.  I wish 
>>>> there were more options for people who can't seem to get the services
they need.
>>>> Tracy
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie McGinnity" 
>>>> <kaybaycar at gmail.com>
>>>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>>>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:52 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] O&M skills
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Tracey,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I agree with you, and that's a great speech.  I think it's great 
>>>>> to work on O&M skills, but some people just have a harder time 
>>>>> with directions and orientation.  Does that mean this should stop
them?
>>>>> No.  But it does mean that they have to ask for help more often 
>>>>> when finding a particular place or navigating somewhere for the first
time.
>>>>> It's about independence: getting where you need to go with no 
>>>>> inconvenience to yourself or others.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The tools we use to do this don't matter as much as that we are 
>>>>> getting out there and doing what we want to accomplish.  We all 
>>>>> know people who's skills may not be as good or who may not do 
>>>>> things the "right" way--or so we think, but let's work harder to 
>>>>> encourage those people who don't go anywhere, feel like they can't 
>>>>> travel, or are too afraid to get training of any kind.  Those cases to
me are truly sad.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 1/30/14, Darla Rogers <djrogers0628 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Tracy,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I couldn't agree more, and sadly, we will see more peo9ple 
>>>>>> without skills perhaps as good as yours or mine, but if you can 
>>>>>> do what you need to do, in a manner that is comfortable for you, 
>>>>>> far be it for me to judge your independence or lack thereof.
>>>>>> Darla & Handsome Huck
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tracy 
>>>>>> Carcione
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 1:03 PM
>>>>>> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog 
>>>>>> Users
>>>>>> Subject: [nagdu] O&M skills
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> While I agree that good orientation skills are an excellent 
>>>>>> thing, and make using a dog a lot better for both partners, I've 
>>>>>> known some people who didn't seem capable of finding their way 
>>>>>> out of the proverbial paper bag, and yet used the dog effectively 
>>>>>> to get where they wanted to go.
>>>>>> A late lamented friend of mine always seemed confused about which 
>>>>>> way to go, but he travelled all over the country and the world, 
>>>>>> going places I'm sure I'll never go.  Was he the ideal dog user?  
>>>>>> No.  Did he get where he wanted to go, when he wanted to get 
>>>>>> there?  Absolutely.  Yet he was sneered at by people who seldom 
>>>>>> stepped outside their familiar routes.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I recommend people read, or re-read, Jernigan's essay, The Nature 
>>>>>> of Independence, which I'm sure is somewhere on nfb.org. Dr. 
>>>>>> Jernigan argues persuasively that getting where you want to go 
>>>>>> when you want to go is the quintessence of independence, and 
>>>>>> judging others for how they accomplish that goal is not particularly
useful.
>>>>>> All I'm trying to say is, we can encourage people to improve 
>>>>>> their O&M to a high standard, and help them find the resources 
>>>>>> they need to do so, but not look down on them if they're unable 
>>>>>> to do it, or assume that, if their O&M doesn't seem excellent, 
>>>>>> that they are not independent people getting where they want to 
>>>>>> go.
>>>>>> Tracy
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Julie McG
>>>>> National Association of Guide dog Users board member,  National 
>>>>> Federation of the Blind performing arts division secretary, 
>>>>> Missouri Association of Guide dog Users President, and Guiding 
>>>>> Eyes for the Blind graduate 2008 "For God so loved the world that 
>>>>> he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not 
>>>>> perish but may have eternal life."
>>>>> John 3:16
>>>>> 
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