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Questions Big Kids Ask: Are Seeing Eye Dogs Taught Social Distancing?

May 21, 20206 CommentsPosted in blindness, guide dogs, Seeing Eye dogs

School closures this year meant our presentations to students were cancelled, too. It’s been months since I shared new questions little kids ask about working with Luna, my Seeing Eye dog. I miss them! Big kids to the rescue! Here’s a sampling of questions students in my memoir-writing classes have been asking me lately, along […]

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Questions Kids Ask: Do You Get Sad Sometimes?

March 8, 202019 CommentsPosted in blindness, Braille, careers/jobs for people who are blind, guide dogs, Mike Knezovich, questions kids ask, Seeing Eye dogs, visiting schools

This past Friday my friend Jamie drove WhitneyLuna and me to the western suburbs of Chicago to visit six groups of third graders at four different schools. we were in Glen Ellyn and Wheaton as part of Educating Outside The Lines, a disability awareness program that uses a hands-on approach to help kids discover how […]

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And now, back to Wanda

January 29, 20207 CommentsPosted in blindness, careers/jobs for people who are blind, guide dogs, memoir writing, Seeing Eye dogs, teaching memoir

Okay. Only one dog-related reference in this post. Honest. I promise. Because here’s the thing. We are wayyyy overdue on news about Wanda Bridgeforth. If you’ve followed our Safe & Sound blog for a while, you know who Wanda Bridgeforth is: she’s witty, she’s talented, she’s 98 years old, she’s been attending the memoir-writing class […]

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