[Blindmath] can visually impaired people study math inhigher level?

[Lucas Radaelli]

Hello iqbal,

I think my situation is not as bad as yours, but is kind of similar. I
live in Brazil, as I know I am the first blind guy doing a course that
uses math (computer science), and I have got many problems.
I was approved in calculus, linear algebra with good grades, because I
had people which could read the books for me.  Now I am felling  some
difficulties to review the subjects that I have learned one year ago.

Of course, I have forgotten some stuff, and I needed them to solve a
problem; I didn't have anyone to ask to read the book, so, having the
accessible material is the best alternative, but not always possible.

I have created a group to creat as much as we can of accessible
materials related to my course, and maybe one day, if another blind
person would like to do the same course that I am doing, they wouldn't
have a lot of problems that I am having.

Well, I think I didn't help anything, I  just would like to share my experience.



2011/7/30, Iqbal Hosen <iqbalrtbd at gmail.com>:
> hi,
> we have no resources so to say. we have not enough braille text books. let
> alone computers. some NGO's sometimes supply with books, or some braille low
> quality equipments and those are our resources for our students. some old,
> broken or low quality tailor frames, abacuses are the only resources for
> math.
> we have sixty-four resource teachers posts. but there are only 34 resource
> teachers are existing. about half of them are sighted and rest are visually
> impaired.  sighted resource teachers are ignorant or negligible to blind and
> the visually impaired resource teachers are not capable of doing math. among
> the visually impaired 14 resource teachers only three are interested in math
> and i have a computer with internet connection. and so i am lucky.
>
> sorry for describing you miserable math condition in our country. i expect
> advice from anyone that can be helpful for our math  improvement.
> regards. iqbal
> resource teacher.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Gardner" <john.gardner at orst.edu>
> To: "'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'"
> <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 1:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] can visually impaired people study math inhigher
> level?
>
>
>> Hello Iqbal, it would also be helpful to us to know what resources are
>> available to your students.  For example, do they have access to computers
>> with screen readers?  If so, which operating systems and screen reader? Or
>> do they rely entirely on paper braille?  What kinds of resources are
>> available to you and to others who must communicate with the blind
>> students.
>>
>> Our best advice will be heavily dependent on resource limitations in
>> Bangladesh.  Personally I feel that blind students who do not have access
>> to
>> a computer are severely handicapped.  Any blind student having access to a
>> computer and screen reader can do a great deal more both in reading and in
>> writing materials intended to be read by sighted people.  If the student
>> must depend on paper braille, then an intermediate transcriber will always
>> be essential.  But if those intermediaries are available, blind students
>> can
>> still learn and do math and science.  It has been done before in poor
>> countries.
>>
>> John Gardner
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>> On
>> Behalf Of Iqbal Hosen
>> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:40 PM
>> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
>> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] can visually impaired people study math in higher
>> level?
>>
>> hi,
>> i am from bangladesh, a country in south-east asia. a very backward
>> country
>> especially for visually impaired people.
>> regards.
>> iqbal.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jaquiss, Robert" <RJaquiss at nfb.org>
>> To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics"
>> <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:23 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] can visually impaired people study math in higher
>> level?
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Hello Iqbal:
>>>
>>>     What country are you in?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>> Robert Jaquiss
>>> National Federation of the Blind
>>> 200 East Wells Street at Jernigan Place
>>> Baltimore, Maryland 21230
>>> Phone: 410-659-9314, ext. 2422
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