[nagdu] Therapy dog

[Jody Ianuzzi]

Hello Marianne,

You are right, that is why if it were me I would first confront the volunteer coordinator and describe how her position is prejudiced and if they don't change their position, I would go to their supervisor.


JODY 🐺
thunderwalker321 at gmail.com

"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."  DOCTOR WHO (Tom Baker)

> On Jun 28, 2015, at 12:06 PM, Marianne Denning via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Jody, you have some good ideas.  I just caution against assuming
> everyone has the same reservations as the volunteer coordinator.
> 
> Just because one person has reservations doesn't mean it is systemic.
> The person with the concerns happens to be the one who is making the
> decision about the volunteers but don't assume anyone else has the
> same concerns.  Fighting these prejudices is also how we break down
> those barriers.
> 
> 
> 
>> On 6/28/15, Jody Ianuzzi via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hello Karla and all,
>> 
>> I have been thinking of Karla's post and I have a few ideas I would like to
>> share.
>> 
>> First of all and most important is the issue of therapy dog.  The purpose of
>> getting a therapy dog certification is to be able to take a dog places where
>> a pet dog is not allowed.  A guide dog already has this certification.  To
>> be a READ dog the dog sits quietly and pays attention to the child who is
>> reading.  A guide dog would do this.    Therefore the whole idea of getting
>> the certification is totally unnecessary.
>> 
>> As for safety, I love the way schools always throw that out as a barrier to
>> anything they don't like.  Some schools even say a blind child can't use a
>> white cane for safety reasons.  This is just hysteria to put up another
>> barrier.
>> 
>> As for Karla's qualifications, they should be thrilled to have a PhD and
>> retired professor assisting with their students.  Instead they don't
>> understand how a blind person can help a child read.  Really?  Give me a
>> break.  When my children were learning to read they would read out loud to
>> me and when they came to a word they didn't know I would have them spell it
>> and we would sound it out together.  Again, the school is putting up another
>> barrier.
>> 
>> So lets remove all the barriers and what do we have left?  Plain and simple
>> prejudice.   If it were me I would first decide if I really wanted to be in
>> such an environment or if there were a better place to volunteer where I
>> would be appreciated like the public library reading program.  If I decided
>> to fight the prejudice I would first  talk to the person putting up all the
>> barriers and I would tell them exactly how I felt discriminated against by
>> their behavior.  If they still insisted on their position I would go to the
>> next level up all the way to the Superintendent of schools and if they still
>> closed the door to me I would contact the media.
>> 
>> Just my two cents but really the therapy dog certification is not the issue
>> here.
>> 
>> JODY 🐺
>> thunderwalker321 at gmail.com
>> 
>> "There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."
>> DOCTOR WHO (Tom Baker)
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