[Blindmath] Questions about accommodations

[Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)]

Whether or not a college wants to pay for Braille is not relivant and is
illegal in the United States. The rough finantial times are serving as
an excuse for discrimination if this is happening. Finally, this seems
to be unique to blindness, after all we don't hear a deaf person say
"They may not want to pay for sign language transolation during lecture.
It's just too expensive". 


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From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Jessica
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 2:06 PM
To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Questions about accommodations

Hi,
In my experience with the O&M stuff it's generally something that the 
state agency for the blind would pay for to get the student used to 
traveling on a college campus. Also keep in mind with the way the 
economy is right now that the colleges may not be willing to pay for 
the Math books to be brailled because unfortunately it's extremely 
expensive to get a book brailled.  By the way that is what the tutoring 
services on campus are for also they will evaluate you to see what type 
of services you make need. Also, keep in mind some of the tutoring 
services on campuses get federal money and to keep it coming so to 
speak they need to have a certain number of students using their 
services. I know when I was going to a local community college in my 
area a few years ago that's what the person who was in charge of the 
Math tutoring lab had told me.
Jessica

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