[blindkid] ADA Question

Richard Holloway rholloway at gopbc.org
Thu Mar 13 19:19:12 UTC 2014


I don’t doubt that is true. I can’t imagine that will ever change. We stopped making the braille signage into a battle long ago at the school. It is almost laughable how many times the school has defensively announced they are working in the signs without our further inquiry. They know we’d like the problem fixed, but as I mentioned I will focus on more pressing needs like substandard textbook solutions, and required web sites which are not accessible.

Our personal signage concern is MUCH more about a new unfamiliar (and also larger) school (we change to middle school next year). We looked at several schools. I believe the one with the defective permanent Braille signs is the middle school the county prefers blind students to attend— the one with the resource room. But they mostly have low vision kids there (as far as VI kids) and a lot of these students won’t even carry canes, let alone read any Braille signs, we are told.

Perhaps, in their minds, this is not a big deal. I do not agree with their lax position. This does not motivate or impress me. How do they plan to foster independence for VI students when the kids are allowed to be apathetic about reading door signs on their own, and refuse to use their white canes?  

As you may have surmised, this particular school is not towards the top of the list of schools for our child.

	-RH

> Adults who are blind have to pick their battles too. 




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