[Blindmath] Statistics

[Maria Aranguren]

Hi Peter,
You have come across a big issue for students with visual impairments and their teachers.  It is a situation that is improving very slowly but has a long way to go toward equal access.  You might want to check if your university has a membership with Access Text  www.accesstext.org    The AccessText Exchange lets you share and access formatted files from peer libraries and major repositories.  If your book is there it may cut down on the formatting time freeing up your disabilities services center to concentrate on the braille translation.   Best of luck to you.
Maria Aranguren
Western Suffolk Boces, New York

--- On Tue, 3/2/10, Lachenbruch, Peter <Peter.Lachenbruch at oregonstate.edu> wrote:

From: Lachenbruch, Peter <Peter.Lachenbruch at oregonstate.edu>
Subject: [Blindmath] Statistics
To: "'blindmath at nfbnet.org'" <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Childers, Maureen" <Maureen.Childers at oregonstate.edu>, "Turek, Joan Lee" <joan.turek at hhs.gov>, "Kovar, Mary Grace" <mgkovar at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 12:13 PM

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



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