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Guide Dog Instructor
Alternative Titles:
Orientation and Mobility (Guide Dog) Instructor
Guide dog instructors train dogs to guide people who are
vision-impaired and also train these people to use a guide
dog.
Guide dog instructors may perform the following tasks:
- work with a team of approximately eight specially chosen
12-month-old dogs that have undergone initial socialisation
on the Guide Dogs Association of Australia's puppy-walking
scheme
- over a period of four to six months, put the dogs
through an intensive assessment and training program
- train the dogs to guide people with little or no sight
through all likely independent travel situations
- train a person who is vision-impaired with a guide dog
at either a residential training facility or within the
person's home area. Training is conducted for three to six
weeks. For people trained in the Centre-based program,
additional follow-up instruction of three to five days is
provided on the person's return home.
Required Skills - Guide Dog Instructor
- good health, hearing and eyesight
- desire to work with people who are vision-impaired
- love of and aptitude for working with dogs
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