From: Randy Tedrow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 7:52 PM To: Holly B. Kaczmarski Subject: Re: [Wcb-l] FW: [AERNet] question on service dogs Holly, Depending on the age of the student, the parents may need to get involved on this issue. They need to talk with the people in charge and see about setting up a meeting with the other student's parents to discuss what is happening. The service dog needs additional training. If the other student has a helper as the blind student does, your helper can talk to his helper and works things out too. The email does not mention if the blind student uses a cane? Hope some help is forth coming. ----- Original Message ----- From: Holly B. Kaczmarski <mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 7:39 PM Subject: [Wcb-l] FW: [AERNet] question on service dogs Are there any members of WCB who might be able to help this person with her issue. I got this from my AER list. Thanks, Holly From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Erin Altieri Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 7:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AERNet] question on service dogs I work with a student who is blind. Another student at the school has a service dog. Both students and the dog are at an after school program together. The boy who is blind has bumped into the service dog a couple of times and the dog now barks at him. The student with the service dog is non-verbal and does not look where he is going so both he and the dog have run into people. Any suggestions on what to do to make the service dog feel secure and allow the student who is blind toindependently navigate? Erin Altieri Teacher of the Visually Impaired OCM BOCES _____ _______________________________________________ Wcb-l mailing list [email protected] http://wcbinfo.org/mailman/listinfo/wcb-l_wcbinfo.org