Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!369!19!Debbie.Hazelton From: Debbie.Hazelton@f19.n369.z1.fidonet.org (Debbie Hazelton) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: Emergency Exitsguidedogs Message-ID: <13046@bunker.UUCP> Date: 23 Jul 90 20:33:18 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Debbie.Hazelton@f19.n369.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:369/19 - The InnerSight Conn, Deerfield Beach FL Lines: 35 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 9420 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] > Willie, first, when I went to the school for the blind, I did not find > they taught against guidedogs, but they seem to make a cane shameful, I heard that a lot of schools used to do that. > As far as the discrimination against guidedog users, I find that is > more discrimination between partials, and totals. I find that some, not all, partials try to make sure they are superior, try to "help" whether this 'ehp is wanted or not. > > Now, as far as at conventions, people not liking the guidedogs. I Find > that it is not that people dislike the dogs, but some of the users. The > way they handle their dogs. I know this is not the way they were > trained. Some don't take their dogs out like they should, and they mess > on the carpets. I know. One went in the exhibit hall and/but, managed to do this in an area that covered the territory in front of both guide dog schools who were exhibiting. Some "message" that dog was saying to those schools! It is ashame when a few people don't handle their dogs well. It is remembered and noticed. I felt that by in large there were more well behaved dogs there this year. It also seems to me that there was better mobility in general. Deb -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!369!19!Debbie.Hazelton Internet: Debbie.Hazelton@f19.n369.z1.fidonet.org