[Blindmath] can visually impaired people studymath inhigher level?

[Iqbal Hosen]

thank you very
much for your advice. i was not present in delhi conference.
iqbal.----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pranav Lal" <pranav.lal at gmail.com>
To: "'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'" 
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Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] can visually impaired people studymath inhigher 
level?


> Hello iqbal,
>
> Were you present at the DAISY conference held in Delhi in January? (I am 
> not
> too sure about the month). I am in India and yes we do have a few resource
> teachers who know math but as far as I know we are still working on
> developing accessible math books. I suspect we will go the LaTech and 
> MathML
> way. You can do quite a lot of math with a computer and geometry paper 
> with
> German film. The problem for the student is independent practice. The 
> other
> problem as others have highlighted is communicating with sighted math
> teachers who are already coping with large class sizes. I see no way 
> around
> this except the use of a computer or a sighted transcriber. If a student
> wants to study math, he has to create his own disability resource center.
> This is what I and a few other students have done here. By a disability
> resource center I mean that we have had to make our books accessible
> ourselves.
>
> I have had some success in persuading private coaching institutions at
> giving me their material in electronic format. The trouble is that when I
> got the material, it was in PageMaker v6.5 format and converting that to
> accessible math remains an unsolved challenge.
>
> Pranav
>
>
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