Training the Owner

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Training the Owner

Once accepted for training with a guide dog a blind person may have to wait up to a year for a correctly matched guide dog, however, SAGA is working hard to reduce this.

Applicants are normally given 6 weeks notice of a class. One month before the class is due to commence the applicant is provided with all the relevant information that he/she will require – everything from the recommended clothing, suggestions for footwear and an outline of what can be expected on the course.

Classes comprising 4, 6 or 8 students meet at the residential centre in either Cape Town or Johannesburg. This will be their home for the next 3 weeks where through a series of daily sessions they are introduced to busier and busier conditions until in the last few days they are coping with heavy traffic and crowded pavements.


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