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Guiding Eyes for the Blind to No Longer Provide Dogs for Autistic Children
The organization said it needed to concentrate on its core mission instead.
Yorktown Heights, NY — Guiding Eyes for the Blind is no longer offering certified service dogs for autistic children and that has some Westchester parents not happy.
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The Yorktown Heights-based used guide dogs that did not meet the standards to work with blind people and were instead trained and placed in homes of autistic children, according to a report on FIOS1 News.
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The CEO of the organization told FIOS1 News that Guiding Eyes needed to concentrate on providing dogs to the visually impaired.
For more on this story, including a video report, go to FIOS1 News here.
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