A new feature of the Echo Show smart home camera enables blind and low-vision customers to hold up an item to the camera and ask, “Alexa, what am I holding?” The Alexa voice assistant service then helps identify the item through advanced computer vision and machine learning technologies for object recognition. “The whole idea for READ MORE
Posts by Board Members
Smart Home Technology Can Help!
Article published on Future in Sight by Beth Daisy, Supervisor of Occupational Therapy | Oct 4, 2021 | Think you don’t need a smart home device? Click on the following link to learn more about this wonderful technology https://futureinsight.org/blog-and-news/smart-home-technology-can-help/
Governor Sununu Proclaims October 2021 as White Cane & Dog Guide Users Awareness Month – Credits: Article taken from The Future in Sight, by Sarah Rondeau | Oct 7, 2021 |
Concord, NH (September 20, 2021) Christopher T. Sununu, Governor of the State of New Hampshire, proclaimed October 2021 as White Cane & Dog Guide Users Awareness Month and calls this to the attention of all citizens. The white cane and dog guide, in addition to being practical mobility tools, serves as a symbol of dignity, freedom, READ MORE
Our New “Our Dogs” section is up and running
The below links are for our member’s service and/or guide dogs living or have passed over the rainbow bridge. To reach our section, please select it from our menu bar or click on the following link: https://dogguideusersnh1.org/?page_id=235
Virtual audio tours to Museums, National parks, Monuments, and others
We would like to share with all of our members a new way to explore the world by using Visual Audio Tours. Brought by UniDescription, this project is an accessible app that contains audio descriptions of a lot of these historically significant places, like national parks, museums, monuments, things like that. Places that people like READ MORE
With mushrooms sprouting, pet owners urged to take care
Some mushrooms can be dangerous for pets MANCHESTER, N.H. — Article by WMUR July 30, 2021, Mike Cronin – News Reporter New Hampshire’s rainy July has meant a lot of mushrooms are popping up, prompting warnings for pet owners. Mushroom farmers said the Northeast as a whole is seeing an uptick of the fungus because READ MORE
Important Information from the Centers for Disease Control About International Travel with Your Seeing Eye® Dog
Dear graduate of The Seeing Eye: We want to share some important information that you will need if you are making plans to travel internationally. As of July 14, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) began requiring that people traveling back to the U.S. from countries where rabies is a high risk obtain a permit READ MORE
Mushroom Toxicity: Mushroom season
By Lynn Buzhardt, DVM Dogs and cats are curious creatures. When outside, they wander around with their noses to the ground… sniffing a lot of things, licking several things, and eating a few things. Unfortunately, their curiosity sometimes gets them into trouble, especially if they decide to nibble on mushrooms. Dogs and cats are natural READ MORE
Welcome to our NEW updated Website
Hi DGUNH members This is Larry (DGUNH VP) and Takashi (Webmaster) and we would like to announce the opening of our newly and more accessible DGUNH webpage. We have worked very hard with the board to make this more user friendly, we will be keeping you updated with the latest news from our group plus news/activities related READ MORE
We are updating our resource page
One of our biggest roles here at the Dog guide Users of NH, is to provide to all of our members, the best resources available in the market and we will keep researching and posting NEW resources from time to time. New resource this month This month, Olivia Parker, the Community Outreach Manager of Vision READ MORE