The Australian Directory of Human Animal Interaction Programs

Guide Dogs Queensland - Assistance Dogs

Guide Dogs Queensland helps blind and vision impaired Queenslanders maintain independence through safe mobility. The Association provides counselling, Orientation and Mobility training, provision of mobility aids, professional and community education, support groups, and Guide Dog breeding, training and placement – all free of charge to clients.

Guide Dog programs are the most widely recognized service provided and lead to a unique bond between a blind or vision impaired person and their Guide Dog.

Guide Dogs have legal access rights to all public places and provide a free-flowing nature of travel for their handler, avoiding obstacles, negotiating traffic, and helping locate doors, steps, chairs to sit on and much more. They also provide love and companionship.

These dogs are highly trained and only matched with a client for a working relationship upon passing stringent breeding examinations, the Puppy Development Program, intensive Guide Dog training and training with their potential new handler. If they pass all of these steps they are then monitored and the Guide Dog/Client team continually supported throughout their working life together.

If at any time a Guide Dog is withdrawn they are assessed for placement as a companion animal (i.e. with vision impaired children).

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