[blindlaw] LSAT Acommodation Follow-up

Sat Nov 15 05:05:03 UTC 2008

Good evening Joe,

After hearing all of the horror stories I was a bit nervous when applying 
for an LSAC accommodation.  However, I was pleasantly surprised at how easy 
it was to get my accommodation.

1. I applied for the LSAC.

2. I took the accommodation forms to an optomotrist, I haven't had my own 
optholmologist in a few years.

3. I told the generic optomotrist what accommodations I needed.  He thought 
it was reasonable and approved it on the form.

4. I sent in the form and within 2 weeks I was approved.

The only difficulty I ran into was that they wanted me to go to an LSAT 
testing centre that was in another state (actually another country).  I 
wanted to take the test in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.  They 
suggested somewhere in the state of Maine.  So, I contacted the University 
of New Brunswick's Student Accessibility Centre.  Once I confirmed that they 
would work with the testing program at the University campus in Fredericton 
to provide a reader I contacted LSAC again and they very quickly changed my 
testing location to Fredericton, the location I had originally requested.

HTH,
Everett

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Orozco" <jsorozco at gmail.com>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:10 PM
Subject: [blindlaw] LSAT Acommodation Follow-up

> Everett,
>
> A laptop accommodation?  I had such an accommodation for the GRE, but I've
> heard so many horror stories of dealing with the LSAC that I thought a
> Perkins was going to be the extent of my additional tools.  Did you have
> someone else note the accommodation on their evaluation, or did you get 
> away
> with noting it on your own general form?  Thank you in advance.
>
> Joe Orozco
>
> "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."--James 
> M.
> Barrie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of E.J. Zufelt
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 8:25 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Testing accommodations
>
> Good evening,
>
> I didn't take a barr exam, but here are the accommodations that I was
> granted for the LSAT.
>
> 1. A reader / transcriber for all of the questions.
> a. I was able to work with the reader before the LSAT and had the option 
> to
> reject the reder and request a new reader.
>
> 2. For the logic portion of the LSAT I was able to use my personal  laptop
> to work through the questions.
>
> 3. for the writing portion of the LSAT I was able to use my personal 
> laptop
> and saved my answer on a memory stick provided by the reader.
>
> I didn't do amazingly well, but I didn't pay a single dollar for the first
> year of law school, so things must of gone well enough.  Not to mention I
> had the flu on the day I wrote the LSAT and had to blow my nose every 20
> minutes.
>
> HTH,
> Everett
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Weisberg" <theweisberggroup at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 7:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Testing accommodations
>
>
>> Testing accommodations from the Cal Bar?  Enjoy the experience, I wish
>> you luck.  Some advice:  submit your request as early as possible to
>> avoid the tired technique of providing your accommodation letter when
>> it's too close to exam time to appeal their decision.  Make part of  your
>> accommodation request the need to use the Pac Mate as "part of"  your
>> adaptive equipment.  This way they have to figure out how you  will 
>> submit
>
>> your answers.  I used a laptop and JAWS and the Bar  provided me
>> diskettes.  One final caveat, sometime prior to the exam  you should
>> contact someone by phone to confirm your materials will be  available in
>> electronic format (If necessary) so you don't show up on  day one to
>> discover there are no materials as requested but instead a  dyslexic
>> reader.  Again, good luck.
>>
>> James
>> On Nov 14, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Leslie Fairall wrote:
>>
>>> I will be taking the first Year Law Exam next year (2009) and will  need
>>> to apply for testing accommodations soon. I would like to type  the
>>> essays using my Pac Mate. What I'm trying to figure out is how I  would
>>> give them to the examiner when I'm finished. Sighted people  who will be
>>> using laptops use a software program called ExamSoft and  will upload
>>> their answers. I'm interested in hearing from people who  have taken the
>>> bar exam with either a notetaker or laptop. If you  took the California
>>> bar, that's even better but all responses are  welcome. Thanks.
>>>
>>>
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