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From: Marda.Anderson@f150.n321.z1.fidonet.org (Marda Anderson)
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Subject: attitudes about guide dogs
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Date: 20 Jul 90 20:23:02 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

I went to a school for the blind and I am a guide dog user.  The school I 
was at always had a representative from Seeing Eye come to speak to the 
students about dogs.  Still, I agree with you that there is an attitude 
problem and lots of times, the worst anti-dog propaganda comes from 
orientation and mobility instructors.  I think this is changing somewhat. 
 When I was at Seeing Eye, they had a group of o and m students in from 
Western Michigan University.  They spent about three days at the school 
getting educated about guide dogs.  At least that's a start in the right 
direction but I think there still needs to be major attitude change among 
sighted teachers of the blind who pass along these anti-dog sentiments to 
their students.
marda
P.S. Aren't you proud of me?  I actually changed the subject line. (grin)

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