University project

1. The social cause I would
volunteer
Eyes on four paws

2. Motivation
“
Physical freedom is so
natural, that you can
appreciate it only when you
lose it.
“
Simply, we believe that
Bulgaria needs the school
which instructs guide dogs
for people with disabilities.
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3. Senses in the dark
Hearing –
Blind people use both visual and auditory cortices to hear.
Echolocation and “Facial vision”.
Sense of smell –
Tactile and auditory stimuli.
Smells effectively activate the visual cortex in blind people.
Smell and emotion.
Smell and behavior.
Sense of touch –
The importance of the sense of touch.
The sense of touch and the size of fingers.
Blindness and the sense of touch.
The Braille code.
Braille and the brain.
Braille music.
Other writing systems for the blind –
Moon Alphabet.
Tactile maps.
Tactile art.
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4. Animal strategies in the dark
Bats –
use echolocation to find
food.
Shark –
has specialized electromagnetic
receptors.
Cats and Dogs –
have a huge hearing range and big
olfactory membrane.
Cockroaches –
detect movement as small
as 2,000 times the
diameter of a hydrogen
atom.
Elephant –
hearing range of an elephant
is between 1 and 20,000 Hz.
Crickets –
Earthworm –
the crawling tongue
The entire body of an
earthworm is covered with
chemoreceptors, similar to
taste receptors.
hear using their legs, as
sound waves create a
vibration on a thin
membrane of their front
legs.
Snakes –
have a heat-sensitive organ
between the eyes and the
nostrils.
The star-nosed mole –
uses its fleshy star nose for hunting.
Fish –
have a “lateral line” system, consisting of sense organs
(“neuromasts”) in canals along the head and trunk.
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5. Open your eyes
Herpes Simplex Eye Disease – Coldsore of the eye;
Macular Degeneration - Degeneration of central part of retina, causing central vision loss;
Diabetic Retinopathy - Bleeding/scarring of the retinal blood vessels caused by Diabetes;
Astigmatism - Oval shaped eye;
Glaucoma - Optic nerve damage often caused by increased pressure in the eye;
Stargardt's Disease - Genetic condition causing loss of central vision - also known as
Juvenile Macular Degeneration;
Retinal Tear and Detachment - Retina peeling/separating from the underlying support tissue;
Flashes and Floaters - Posterior Vitreous Detachment;
Nearsightedness - Myopia;
Conjunctivitis - Pink Eye;
Keratoconus - Clear central covering of the eye representing a cone;
Blepharitis - Inflammation of eye lid margins or 'Granulated Eyelids„;
Optic Neuritis - Inflammation of the Optic Nerve;
Cataracts - Clouding of the lens inside the eyes;
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6. Back in time
Man's relationship with wolves stretches
back 400,000 years.
The earliest recorded example is depicted in a first-century AD
mural in the buried ruins of Roman Heculaneum.
Man's domestication of dogs
coincides with the evolution
of early breeds of dogs about
150,000 years ago.
1780 ,at 'Les Quinze-Vingts' hospital for the blind in Paris.
1788, Josef
Riesinger, a
blind sievemaker from
Vienna, trained
a Spitz so well
that people
often
questioned
whether he
was blind.
During the First World War, with thousands of
soldiers returning from the Front blinded, often
by poison gas.
1931, the first four British
guide dogs completed their
training and three years later
The Guide Dogs for the Blind
Association was founded in the
UK.
1916 ,Dr Stalling opened
the world's first guide
dog school for the blind
in Oldenburg.
Dorothy Harrison Eustis, training dogs for the army, police and
customs service in Switzerland and would properly launch the
guide dog movement internationally.
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7. Best breeds for guide dogs
Golden Retriever
Origin - Great Britain
Temperament -Intelligent, Kind, Friendly,
Confident, Reliable, Trustworthy
Labrador Retriever
Origin - United Kingdom, Canada
Temperament - Gentle, Intelligent, Good-tempered,
Kind, Outgoing, Agile
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8. Best breeds for guide dogs
German Shepherd
Origin – Germany
Other names - Alsatian, Berger Allemand ,
Deutscher Schäferhund ,GSD , Schäferhund
Temperament - Gentle, Intelligent, Good-tempered,
Kind, Outgoing, Agile
Beagle
Origin - Great Britain
Temperament - Gentle, Intelligent, Even Tempered,
Determined, Amiable, Excitable
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9. Best breeds for guide dogs
The generic term for dogs trained to guide the blind is
"guide dog.“
Biddability, intelligence, ability and willingness to work long
hours,
ability to tolerate stress, good health,
and public acceptability or recognition.
Originally guide dogs German Shepherds (this was right after
World War I).
Later most programs switched to Labrador Retrievers.
Ideal behavior and intelligence characteristics for guide dog
work.
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10. In Bulgaria
Foundation Eyes on four paws
The only school in Bulgaria for dog guides for blind people.
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11. I would volunteer
“Foster family” program – adopt puppy;
Donate – money or buy food for guide dogs;
Send contributory SMS;
“Open your eyes” campaign;
Attempt in “Seeing in the dark” events;
Spend some time with blind person for company;
Respect the 10 requests of guide dog;
http://e4p-bg.com/10-te-molbi-na-kucheto-vodach/
Electronic recycling services to charities;
Join Speakers Bureau;
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12. “Always in the dark,
never able to see beyond,
but they have a faint glow of hope that will spark,
when they hear you and respond.
You can give them hope,
and you can help them strive,
when they can't get pass the challenges
you are there to help them cope,
you are what makes them come alive.”
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