General
Boot camp for guide dogs and handlers helping vision impaired kids make new connections
Sara Abdulrazaq is legally blind and has always used a cane.
Key points:
- Guide Dogs Tasmania has held its first ‘Test Drive a Guide Dog’ camp to connect young vision impaired Tasmanians with guide dogs
- Many vision-impaired Tasmanians say they felt isolated and lost independence at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Guide Dogs Tasmania is calling for more volunteer puppy raisers
But the 15-year-old hopes she might soon get more assistance with a guide dog.
“I’m legally blind, so I can’t see that much, and I’m more on the severe side, so I use a cane and I don’t find the cane useful,” Sara said.
“[The cane] tells me something’s in front of me but … I just want something like a guide dog to guide me around the object.”
Sara is one of five…
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