[Blindmath] Audio

[John G Heim]

I agree with Sean. It's a tough question because there are only so many 
senses. If you eliminate vision, hearing, and touch, that doesn't leave 
much. To do something else, you would probably have to get into some 
experimental adaptive equipment.

Expanding on what Sean said, I think a lot can be said for muddling 
through. If a blind person said to me, "I want to be an airline pilot, 
how do I go about doing that?," I'd suggest he rethink his career goals. 
But a hefty percentage of college students of all types just get by in 
their math classes in order to get to their career goals. In fact, I 
would say that muddling through is the same thing as being tough and 
determined. We admire people for being tough and determined but it's 
really just the same thing as muddling through. You may just have to do 
the best you can with the abilities you have. It will probably get 
easier with practice. Get as much help as you can and just hang in 
there. And don't beat yourself up if things don't go as well as you'd like.
Frankly, I think that's the secret to a happy, successful life -- 
recognizing that being courageous and muddling through are really the 
same thing.

On 03/01/2016 05:32 PM, Sean Tikkun via Blindmath wrote:
>  From a cognitive psychology perspective you may not be good at it, but you can develop a skill and practice it. I am assuming the student we are talking about in this situation does not have usable vision for math work?
>
> Sean
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>> On Mar 1, 2016, at 4:48 PM, Anna via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> If someone is not good at processesing detailed or technical material auditoraly, and has to do a lot of college level math, and cannot use braille, what suggestions do you have?
>>
>> Anna
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