{"id":237,"date":"2012-06-06T16:46:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T05:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-blogs-monash-edu.pantheonsite.io\/rural-health\/?p=237"},"modified":"2012-06-06T16:46:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T05:46:38","slug":"guide-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2012\/06\/06\/guide-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide dogs show students the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Gippsland Medical School\u2019s Disability Module for Health and Society, <a title=\"Opens the Guide Dogs Victoria web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guidedogsvictoria.com.au\/\">Guide Dogs Victoria<\/a> recently visited and provided a suite of activities for students give them a deeper understanding of what it is like to live with a disability.<\/p>\n<p>The session enabled students to get a sense of how the Gippsland campus particularly, and our environment in general, caters for people with a vision impairment or other disability and also the kinds of services that Guide Dogs Victoria offers, which are not only for the vision impaired.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, the students got to meet Benson the guide dog, and learn how to interact with a working guide dog and to see what he is like when out of his harness. His owner Joan described him as \u201ca real hoon!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The students really enjoyed this activity again, as they did last year. Guide Dogs Victoria is always keen to promote its work, so was pleased to return this year to help with Gippsland Medical School\u2019s educational activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Gippsland Medical School\u2019s Disability Module for Health and Society, Guide Dogs Victoria recently visited and provided a suite of activities for students give them a deeper understanding of what it is like to live with a disability. The session enabled students to get a sense of how the Gippsland campus particularly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2012\/06\/06\/guide-dogs\/\"> Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}