[Arizona-students] ASU Student

Tue Apr 2 20:57:58 UTC 2013

Hi Suzanne,
Welcome to the list. I am Arielle Silverman, a past president of the
Arizona Association of Blind Students (AABS). I grew up in Scottsdale
and attended ASU from 2003-2007, graduating with my bachelor's in
biology and psychology. I am almost totally blind, so I didn't use
CCTV's or large print, but I wanted to ask you if you had thought
about using a screen reader like JAWS or VoiceOver to read your
assignments, or if you have thought about getting your books from
either BookShare or Learning Ally. Screen readers like JAWS are not
very hard to learn and there are tons of people in AZ who would be
more than happy to help teach you. I suspect that you will find
reading is much quicker using speech than it is using print, which
you've said is getting slower for you. Also, if you get books from
BookShare (which is free for students), you can get your books in a
digital version that can be read in audio format, large print, E-text
or Braille, and Learning Ally provides books in digital audio. I hope
that will give you some more options to work with. I'm at work now so
this note is a little rushed, but I'll write again later tonight or
tomorrow. Best of luck and go Devils!
Arielle

On 4/2/13, Suzanne Germano <sgermano at asu.edu> wrote:
> I am already signed up with Disabled Resource Center and they provide my
> tests in large print and make the CCTV available if I take the test at the
> DRC. In the past I always took my tests in the classroom with large print
> but I was not sure how much I may need the CCTV so this semester I tested
> at DRC.
>
> So far all the instructors have been very accommodating with things I may
> need.
>
> I will contact you about the AABS meetings.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Darian Smith <dsmithnfb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello and welcome to the list!
>>  my name is Darian Smith.
>>  While I am not from Arizona, I am on this list as regional
>> representative
>>  for the aNational Association of Blind Students  where I serve  as it's
>> 2nd Vice President.
>>
>>  Sometimes in situations like this, it's helpful to get connected with
>> the
>> disabled students  Office on campus. This can help  you get the
>> accommodations you think you may need.
>>  If you are willing to do this (assuming this is something that you might
>> find  useful) You might find that, their backing  might help instructors
>> understand what you need better.  Sometimes you might need someone to be
>> a
>> reader on those tests, sometimes  you might be able  to get them in
>> electronic format, other times you might need it in braille and they
>> should
>> be able to help out with this.
>>
>>  I don't know  when AABS meets these days  and how often they meet, but
>> if
>> you contact  me off-list i will make sure you get connected to someone on
>> the board who can tell you this more clearly
>>   Best,
>>   Darian maybe even
>> On Apr 2, 2013, at 8:20 AM, Suzanne Germano <sgermano at asu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > My name is Suzanneand I recently returned to school to finish my BS in
>> > Computer Science after being out of school for over 15 years. I have
>> > been
>> > legally blind since birth and I am looking to connect with other blind
>> > students. I started at ASU in January.
>> >
>> > When I last went to school they never did group quizzes. How do you
>> handle
>> > those?  I find no matter how many times I say I am legally blind or
>> > visually imapired and ask if things are described or written bigger
>> > they
>> > just don't seem to get it. I have only had 2 group quizzes so far. One
>> > I
>> > chose to just do by myself. The other I kinda of worked with others but
>> > mostly just to verify my work.
>> >
>> > Now that I am 49 my reading vision with karge print seems to be worse
>> and I
>> > use more magnification of ebooks and CCTV but I find that I seem to
>> > take
>> > much more time than I did when I was previously in school.
>> >
>> > I would also like to talk with others about how to handle career fairs
>> and
>> > other things like that.
>> >
>> > Does the AZ student group hold meetings?
>> >
>> > Suzanne
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