[blindlaw] Law Schools Power over Readers or assistants for study and outside of classroom assignments if the individual is not paid by the school

[Rod Alcidonis, Esquire]

Aimee:

The short answer is no. But if you are so concerned about it, I would voice 
those concerns to your Dean of Students or Academic affair so that they are 
fully aware of those concerns. This is what accommodation is all about. IN 
the practice of law, I typically get my asssistants to sign a 
confidentiality document to protect myself/client.




Rod Alcidonis, Esq.


-----Original Message----- 
From: Aimee Harwood via BlindLaw
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2016 9:56 PM
To: Michal Nowicki via BlindLaw
Cc: Aimee Harwood
Subject: [blindlaw] Law Schools Power over Readers or assistants for study 
and outside of classroom assignments if the individual is not paid by the 
school

Greetings everyone,

I am getting a reader who is paid by the state.  This reader will perform 
reading of any material for school purposes that I need them to read.  They 
will also proof any assignments before I hand them in.  I will use them 
during research to help locate something on the screen that is hard to 
locate it is too time consuming to navigate to just to get that one bit of 
info. Basically the individual will assist with anything vision related.

My school assigns a judicial opinion the first semester of the 1L year. All 
graded assignments have restrictions on students getting outside assistance. 
We are not allowed to let anyone see our work or assist us in any way 
regarding the assignment including research. If a student violates any of 
the restrictions, they violate the honor code.

Now that you have the basic situation, can the school penalize me for using 
a reader to assist me in any visual aspect of the assignment? If I use the 
reader to verify the formatting or point out any issues they see that I may 
have missed because I didn't see it?  What about penalizing me for using the 
reader to assist in research to find what I ask them to find  or highlight 
what I ask them to highlight? Basically, can they penalize me for the reader 
performing non-essential tasks on graded assignments?  How much control does 
the school have over the person paid by the state to assist with outside of 
class activities as long as I am the one doing the legal work?



Aimee

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