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Education
Learning about the Blind
Links to other service dog sites
Suggested reading list for children

created by Mindy
01/30/2006

a brief bio of a woman who overcame her handicaps of being both blind and deaf.

Describes how a blind mother adjust to getting a new guide dog.

Follows the career of a guide dog from it's raising as a puppy, through the training process, and placement with a blind person.

Traces the life of a lab from birth through training at the Guide Dog Foundation, where he is introduced to the blind owner for whom he will be responsible.

Describes the selection and training of guide dogs and how they are paired with a blind person.

The life of the 19th century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used throughout the world by the blind.

Helen Keller tells how she learned to read, write and speak despite the fact that she was blind and deaf.

In a simple and heartwarming manner, this book captures the insights that can be gained by watching a guide dog puppy grow up.   40 color paintings

In diary format, the author tells of his 26 days observing a young blind man training with a  guide dog at Guiding Eyes for the Blind.

Describes Buddy the German Shepard's training at a school for police dogs in the late 1920's and his relationship with the young Morris Frank, a blind man who trained Buddy to be the first seeing eye dog.

Describes the daily work of Pete Jackson, who trains dogs to guide blind people and then teaches students how to work with those dogs.

Julie experiences the joys and responsibilities of raising a puppy to be trained as a guide dog for the blind/

Children's picture book

Relates how a family and their dog help prepare a puppy fro training as a guide dog for the blind.

Photographic essay about a blind girl, 22 year old Connie David and her guide dog, Blythe.

The first graders learn to accept the new boy who is blind.

A young girl trains her blind dog to follow and trust a eyeing eye companion dog.