[Blindmath] Used Braille College Text Books

[Susan Mooney]

The university needs to talk to other people.  Yes, there are budget crappy
transcribers out there.  The overwhelming majority of us are professionals,
however.  Braille Plus (www.brailleplus.net) is a fabulous outfit which
prides itself not only on accuracy and fast turn arounds but they are a joy
to work with and for.  Again, most instructors are not going to use the
entire text so it may be worth getting only the portion of the books
needed.  I can't imagine trying to do physics and chem and math without
braille.  I have transcribed many level college texts w/o doing the entire
book. It doesn't matter if your son is the first or the 121st blind
student.  The university needs to get its butt in gear.

SM

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Tammy Berg <tdberg72 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thank you everyone for your feedback and responses. After talking with the
> disability services department more, I was provided with the following
> information regarding where they received their pricing for the books being
> transcribed to Braille. My son will be the first blind student to attend
> their univesity so it's going to be a learning experience for all of us.
> They are offering audio books, readers, and scribes; however, we were
> really hoping to get the books in Braille so he can be more independent and
> have the material at his fingertips. We will continue to push for the
> Braille books.
>
> "The estimates were done by Arizona State University’s Disability
> Services Office that does the work in-house for their students.   Others
> confirm that they deliver the
> highest quality produced at a reasonable cost.
> I have a list of other agencies that do Braille texts, but have
> been warned that not all are equal in quality or production time.  Most
> conversion agencies require one year in advance to convert texts to
> Braille.
>  College level science and math pose another challenge:  it is
> important that the agency employs converters that know the subject matter
> well enough to accurately convert it.
> The ASU estimates (sans two) for Fall 2012
> semester were as follows:
> --Basics of Engineering Economy  = $18,000
> (could be a “hybrid” for $8000)
> --Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter = $55,000  (not
> cheaper as a hybrid due to more labor involved in making the text/images to
> audio with screen-reader)
> --University Physics = $72,000 (could be a “hybrid” for $38,000
> if student is accustomed to listening to math)
> --Calculus = $71,000 (could be a “hybrid” for $40,000 if student
> is accustomed to listening to math)"
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Tammy Berg <tdberg72 at yahoo.com>
> To: "blindmath at nfbnet.org" <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:50 PM
> Subject: [Blindmath] Used Braille College Text Books
>
> My son will be attending a private university in the fall and we have just
> been notified that they will not be able to provide his texts books in
> Braille due to the cost of $50,000-$60,000 per text that they were quoted
> for having them converted to Braille. Are there any resources for used
> Braille math and science college text books.
> The texts that he will be using in the fall are:
> Calculus, 6th Edition
> James Stewart
> ISBN-13978-0495011668
> Publiser: Brooks Cole
> Chemistry
> The Molecular View of Nature, 6th Edition
> Jespersen, Brady, Hyslop
> Publisher:  Wiley University Physics
> by Young & Freedman 13th edition 2012
> Publishers: Addison & Wesley
> Thank You - Tammy
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