List of guide dog schools
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A list of notable guide dog schools world wide.
Guide dog
s (also called seeing-eye dogs) are assistance dog
s trained to lead blind
and visually impaired
people around obstacles.
Guide dog
Guide dog
Guide dogs are assistance dogs trained to lead blind and visually impaired people around obstacles.Although the dogs can be trained to navigate various obstacles, they are partially color blind and are not capable of interpreting street signs...
s (also called seeing-eye dogs) are assistance dog
Assistance dog
An assistance dog is a dog trained to aid or assist a person with a disability. Many are trained by a specific organization, while others are trained by their handler .-Classification:...
s trained to lead blind
Blindness
Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...
and visually impaired
Visual impairment
Visual impairment is vision loss to such a degree as to qualify as an additional support need through a significant limitation of visual capability resulting from either disease, trauma, or congenital or degenerative conditions that cannot be corrected by conventional means, such as refractive...
people around obstacles.
North America
- Guide Dogs for the BlindGuide Dogs for the BlindGuide Dogs for the Blind is a guide dog school located in the United States, with campuses in San Rafael, California, and Boring, Oregon. It was founded in 1942 to help veterans who had been blinded in World War II.- History :...
- Guiding Eyes for the BlindGuiding Eyes for the BlindGuiding Eyes for the Blind is one of eleven accredited schools in the U.S. for training guide dogs — dogs trained to lead the blind and visually impaired...
- Leader Dogs for the BlindLeader Dogs for the BlindLeader Dogs for the Blind is a guide dog training school located in Rochester Hills, Michigan. It was founded in 1939 by Lions Club members, Charles Nutting, Don Schuur and S.A. Dodge , as the second guide dog school founded in the U.S....
, Rochester, MichiganRochester, MichiganRochester is an affluent city in north Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan on the northern outskirts of metro Detroit. The population was 12,711 at the 2010 census...
, USA - Mira FoundationMira FoundationThe Mira Foundation is a French-Canadian community-based organization which pursues the following stated "objective": "to bring greater autonomy to handicapped people and to facilitate their social integration by providing them with [guide and service] dogs that have been fully trained to...
, Sainte-Madeleine, QuebecSainte-Madeleine, QuebecSainte-Madeleine is a village in southwestern Quebec, Canada in the Regional County Municipality of Les Maskoutains. The population as of the Canada 2006 Census was 2,175.-Population:Population trend-Language:Mother tongue language ...
, CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... - The Seeing EyeThe Seeing EyeThe Seeing Eye, Inc. is a guide dog school that is located in Morristown, New Jersey in the United States. It was founded in 1929 as the first guide dog school in the country...
, Morristown, New JerseyMorristown, New JerseyMorristown is a town in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town population was 18,411. It is the county seat of Morris County. Morristown became characterized as "the military capital of the American Revolution" because of its strategic role in the...
, USA - Guide Dogs of the Desert, [Palm Springs, California]]
- Pilot Dogs, Inc., Columbus, Ohio]
Oceania
- Seeing Eye Dogs AustraliaSeeing Eye Dogs AustraliaSeeing Eye Dogs Australia is the only national organisation in Australia to focus on providing Seeing Eye Dogs to people with vision impairment.SEDA's head office is based in Melbourne, Australia - though it has major operations in Queensland....
- Royal New Zealand Foundation of the BlindRoyal New Zealand Foundation of the BlindThe Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind is a provider of services to blind, deafblind and vision-impaired people. It was formerly the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind.-History:...
, Newmarket, Auckland