> On Sun, January 14, 2007 6:53 pm, Thomas Neuville wrote:
> This is a problem of relationship not services.
i don't think the relationship and the service can be entirely separated
when it comes to our assistive devices. i have to recharge my power
wheelchair every night if i expect it to reliably perform services for me.
that's a relationship. similarly, pwd's and service animals have a
relationship, albeit a far more complex one that obviously takes more
intensive effort than simply reading an operations manual and following a
few instructions. in this case particularly, in which the owner has just
recently acquired his service animal, i can see how seperating the
owner(john case) and service animal, simba, during john's primary daily
activity of being a student, would interfere and likely be harmful to
initial efforts to establishing the strong interdependent relationship
necessary for simba to provide maximum service as soon as possible.
sharon lamp
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> Subject: service dog turned away from school
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> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I have not seen any discussion of this on listservs but did see an
> interesting story on, of all places, the program Geraldo: At Large.
> It seems that in the state of New York the service dog of a high
> school student who is deaf is not being allowed to accompany the boy
> in school. The dog alerts the boy to sounds he doesn't hear (cars,
> sirens, alarms, sometimes people calling his name). His mother
> reported that due to the particular nature their relationship it is
> important that they be in contact as much as possible to build and
> nurture that relationship. Obviously he feels like he needs the dog
> and whoever provided it feels like he needs it as well. However, the
> school has been arguing that he does not need it in school. The
> environment, they claim, is free of the sorts of sounds the dog
> provides assistance with. Apparently the school is conducting an
> investigation to determine whether or not he needs the god in their
> building. More than just denying rights to access it strikes me that
> the school board is denying the boy and the service dog their
> relationship, or at least the neccessary time to develop the sort of
> relationship they should have. I was unable to get too many details
> from the story. Has anyone else heard of this story or have any
> thoughts on the matter?
>
> regards,
> Ryan
>
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