Visually impaired teacher plans book about service dogs

From WLFI-TV:

LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Kathy Nimmer, a Harrison High School English teacher who is legally blind, just received a $25,000 Lilly Endowment Grant. She plans to use the money to set up a web site to gather information and stories from people with service dogs, and use these stories to write a book.

The project is called Two Plus Four Equals One, which Nimmer says describes the partnership between the disabled and their service dogs.

Nimmer hopes her book makes others more aware of people living with disabilities.

"If my students can see their stories come alive through this book and see me as a disabled person succeeding in a very challenging publishing world, then I hope that the book will make a difference," said Nimmer.

Nimmer hopes to finish her book and get a deal by the summer of 2010.