Freedom Guide Dogs
Learning about Guide Dogs, Blindness and Visual
Impairment
The eye has different parts with different jobs
Some people’s eyes have trouble doing their jobs so they can’t see as well. That is called visual impairment.
People without visual impairment will see this image clearly
This is what someone with glaucoma sees…
This is what someone with retinitis sees…
This is what someone with retinopathy sees…
Without sight, blind & visually impaired people use their other senses to help them do things
Sense of Smell
Sense of Taste
Sense of Hearing
Sense of Touch
?What are some tools that visually impaired people can use to help them do things?
Sighted Guide
The blind person holds onto a sighted person’s arm. The sighted person guides them where they need to go
Cane
The blind person moves the cane back and forth in front of them to feel for obstacles
Guide Dogs
Guide Dogs help get blind people from one place to another
Guide Dogs are the eyes for someone who is blind or visually impaired
They can help a blind person cross the street…
…Go to the store
…Avoid obstacles
…Or just be a great friend!
If you see someone with a guide dog…
How do you know it’s a guide dog?
Harness
Then the guide dog can do it’s job and take the blind person safely from one place to another
For more information about guide dogs, go to:
www.freedomguidedogs.org
And watch videos of the puppies and trainers on the Freedom Guide Dog Channel on
YouTube!
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