[Blindmath] Statistics

[David Andrews]

You can go to www.aph.org and choose Louis to search for book.  You 
can also search www.loc.gov/nls for other versions in there voyager 
catalog search.

Dave

At 11:13 AM 3/2/2010, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>After many years of teaching, I have a blind student in my class.  I 
>am using a text by Utts and Heckard "Mind on Statistics" and want to 
>know if there is a Braille edition.  Our disabilities access office 
>is planning to convert the text to Braille, but obviously if there's 
>such an edition already available, it would be great to know about it.
>
>More generally, the disabilities office mentioned that when they get 
>a pdf file of a text, they often must reformat it so their 
>translation software can work.  It struck me that some sort of a 
>clearing house for establishing standards would be good - and then 
>one conversion could serve for all.  I have asked the American 
>Statistical Association committee on Disabilities and Statistics to 
>consider this.
>
>I know that some books are read to tape or CD (my neighbor a few 
>years ago did this for basic math books).  This would be another option.
>Tony
>
>Peter A. Lachenbruch
>Department of Public Health
>Oregon State University
>Corvallis, OR 97330
>Phone: 541-737-3832
>FAX: 541-737-4001