[blindlaw] 1l summer internships and assistive tech

[Timothy J. Meloy]

I had somewhat unique internship experiences. My one L internship was a school clinic and so I use my computer at school which already had all of the software I needed on it. For my third year, I work headed to Mestic violence clinic through legal aid, and I installed my own software on one of their machines. They were very amenable to that approach. Hope this is helpful.
T.J.

> On Oct 18, 2013, at 7:45 AM, Laura Wolk <laura.wolk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I am sure this has been raised before, but I am wondering if anyone
> has advice regarding 1l summer internships and assistive
> technology--namely, how to address the elephant in the room of the
> expense of the technology versus the time period during which I will
> be working at a particular place.
> 
> Does anyone have advice on how to address this, or the issue of
> potential discrimination that is always inherent when dealing with the
> short term hiring of a person with a disability doing more or less
> dime-a-dozen  grunt work? I confess that i don't know much about the
> application and interviewing process--we've only just been able to
> legally speak with our career counselors--so I apologize if some of
> these questions are rather routine. I wanted to go into my first
> appointment with my counselor as prepared as possible.
> 
> I own copies of all the tech I need and, in undergrad, this is what I
> would use for internships, but I have heard that people in the legal
> profession tend to be not so amenable to this approach. Are there
> particular types of summer jobs where the intern's responsibilities
> lend themselves particularly well to a totally blind assistive tech
> user other than research positions? note that I am not currently
> working with OVR because I am going to school out of state and so the
> two states are currently both fighting me on not wanting to open a
> case with me.
> 
> any advice about how to address this in the internship process would
> be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Laura
> 
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