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i really want a guide dog. i can not find know one to gibe me o and m. i tried bsvi and i was told that had spend to much on me. what else can i do. why do school request vidos.
Hi, used to have a guide dog but now they wont let me have another one. Not until I find 3 rutes that I do with my mobility. I don't know where you re from. Iam frm the UK. Guide dog people are realy strict n this country. I don't know about anywhere else.
Explain again why they won't give you O&M? Not all schools require videos, but it's for the same reason they send an instructor out to see you during the application process. They want to assess that you're ready for a guide dog, and I believe the video is to see that you have good O&M skills.
you need to know white cane use before you can get a dog. your mobility needs to be good before you can have a dog. a dog is a help, not the base solution to mobility. basically, first use a stick, then if you can use the stick confidently, then you can progress to a dog.
bsvi will not pay for o and m because they say that have spent to much money on me. they pay for me to have o and m at college some home o and m when i was living with family. i never got community o and m. i looked a place where i could get o and m and it would cost me $90.00 an hour.
You should appeal in order to get O and M training. The cost should not be a factor because this is something you need. If your case worker is telling you this, go above him/her and demand some training. I have never paid for any kind of training and I think they are giving you a lot of bull. The Seeing Eye will have someone come out to visit you to see how your o and m skills are. You don't have to send a video.
You need good traveling skills with a cane because for example, Say your dog is sick one day and you have to get to work, you don't want to take a sick dog to work so traveling with your cane may be the only way to get there. This has happen to me and since I have fairley good cane skills I did not have to miss work. I am not the perfect cane traveler but you have to know how to use it in order to get a guide dog.
Good luck!
i don't have perfect cane skills. bsvi closed my case. they told me to take certain class from hadley before they will help me. i tried going to the seeing eye. i was turned down because of my o and m skills.
If The Seeing Eye has turned you down because of your O&M training then I recommend you contact Leader Dogs in Rochester MI. If you tell them your problem they might be able to help you find somewhere that can give you O&M training. Actually, they might be willing to have you come in for mobility training there at there own school. It is a very good campus and if you have anymore questions feel free to message.
At guide dogs for the blind they don't require a video either. I'm not sure if they'd be able to give u O&m training, but u could try contacting them to see.
1800-495-4050.
Grrr, this is when I have to say, so much for the ADA! While I think that anyone who has the means should pay for what they want, there are some who can't, and it shouldn't be so fucking difficult and exhausting to get assistive services to do their fucking jobs!!!! If you want to improve your mobility skills to the point at which you would be ready for a dog, they should help you! All I can say is, fight like hell! Keep researching ways to make them get off their asses.
Becky
nicely put becky. lol. yeah, Keep researching and calling schools and anything u can do that may have the slightest possibility of helping your situation.
Good luck.
Jenna and bilko.
Now I have the problem in my area where I can use a stick confidently, I've been using a white cane since I was 10 and I moved up to Secondary School. Trouble is though, my rehab team's so wet, they won't let me cross a very busy main road to get to the shops on the other side, nearly two streets away from my house. We had a rehab worker from Guide dogs round to talk about my getting one, but I couldn't get one until I'd learned at least 4 routes taking at least 20 minutes each to accomplish, so I'm now housebound here because nobody can or will, help me with the mobility side of things.
Then, a few weeks back, I met for the first time with RNIB Employment Adviser Kate Stone, who covers my area and she thinks that the rules have changed with regards to my getting a dog. Could anybody from the UK or otherwise, currently resident in the UK, throw some light on this for me? Its basically the homework she's set for me for our next meeting.
Jen.