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Duties and Tasks
Guide dog instructors may perform the following tasks: - work with a team of approximately eight specially chosen 12-month-old dogs that have undergone initial socialisation on the Guide Dogs Association of Australia's puppy-raising scheme
- over a period of four to six months, put the dogs through an intensive assessment and training program
- train the dogs to guide people with little or no sight through all likely independent travel situations
- train a person who is vision-impaired with a guide dog at either a residential training facility or within the person's home area. Training is conducted for three to six weeks. For people trained in the centre-based program, additional follow-up instruction of three to five days is provided on the person's return home.
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