CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

AUTISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How did Eustis come up with the idea to train dogs to help the blind?
A
She worked at a police dog training facility in Switzerland.
B
She founded a company called Seeing Eye to train dogs to help the blind.
C
She read an article about seeing eye dogs and she wanted to train one for herself.
D
She visited a training program where dogs were being trained to help WWI soldiers who were blinded.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -How did Eustis come up with the idea to train dogs to help the blind? She worked at a police dog training facility in Switzerland. She founded a company called Seeing Eye to train dogs to help the blind. She read an article about seeing eye dogs and she wanted to train one for herself.

Detailed explanation-2: -Frustrated by his own lack of mobility as a blind person, he was inspired to write its author for help. Dorothy Harrison Eustis (1886-1946) was an American training German shepherd police dogs in Switzerland, and when she received Morris Frank’s letter, she agreed to help him.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first known example of a special relationship between a dog and a blind person was depicted in a first-century AD mural in the ruins of Roman Herculaneum. The Guide Dogs story started in 1931 with two amazing British pioneers, Muriel Crooke and Rosamund Bond.

Detailed explanation-4: -Guide dogs signal danger through intelligent disobedience. This enables the person with visual impairment to recognize when to avoid a blocked path or hanging object. Even crossing the street still requires a person with blindness to listen for traffic to determine when it is safe to cross.

Detailed explanation-5: -Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB) is a guide dog school located in the United States, with campuses in San Rafael, California, and Boring, Oregon. It was founded in 1942 by Lois Merrihew and Don Donaldson to help veterans who had been blinded in World War II.

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