Dog Guides and Blind Children

Leaflet

Accession Number: 2016.34.3

Subtitle: A Joint Statement

Summary/Description: A statement opposing the placement of dog guides with blind children. Prepared and distributed jointly by representatives of eleven agencies who agreed that blind children (under age 16) generally lack the necessary maturity and responsibility "to exercise control measures on which a reliable dog guide depends." In addition to Georgie Lee Abel (San Francisco State College), other representatives included: Dr. Robert Barnett and Kathern Gruber (American Foundation for the Blind); Rev. Thomas Carroll (Catholic Guild for All the Blind); Jake Jacobson (American Association of Workers for the Blind); William F. Johns (Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc.); Harold Pocklington (Leader Dogs for the Blind, Inc.); Louis Rives, Jr. (Services for the Blind, U.S. Vocational Rehabilitation Administration); Dr. Edward Waterhouse (Perkins School for the Blind); George Werntz, Jr. (The Seeing Eye, Inc.); Russell Williams (Blind Rehabilitation Section, Veterans Administration); J.M. Woolly (American Association of Instructors for the Blind). Printed on green paper. Statement was also published in New Outlook for the Blind, June 1963, pages 228-229.

Author: Abel, Georgie Lee, et al.

Collection: AER O&M Division C. Warren Bledsoe Archives

Credit Line: Gift of Noel and Arline Stephens

Publisher: [Distributed by the authors]

Publish Date: [1963]

Subjects: Blind children Dog guides

Physical Description: [4] unnumbered pages on 1 folded sheet ; 8.5 x 5.5 in.