[blParent] Danielle question about accessible homeschool online programs for children in elementary

[Danielle Rath]

Hi Ken! Thank you so so much for responding to the message with your own situation! It helps me to feel that I am not alone

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> On Oct 5, 2020, at 7:52 AM, ken Quinn via BlParent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hi, 
> I have 3 children all who have sight and they are all enrolled in the pennsylvania cyber charter school. My youngest is in first grade and I myself am totally blind. When we were enrolling him in kindergarten we approached the school to see if the materials could be provided both in print for him and braille for myself. They were very open to doing this. Just a side note even though it is a cyber school myself along with my wife need to teach him every day even though he does have one live class with a teacher which occurs ones day for a two hour period. So to continue my thought from earlier, they were going to produce the teachers manual along with the supporting worksheet books in braille. However, the publisher also wanted the pictures put into braille and this was with 2 weeks prior to the start of school. The cyber school was going to give me a laptop with OCR software and a flat bed scanner. That would have been time consuming however, it was their solution to this problem. I then asked them if the had heard of AIRA and they hadn’t/. I told them about that and at the time they were using glasses, now they aren’t. So the cyber school purchased the kit with the glasses as well as paying for a plan for a few hundred minutes a month. Besides using AIRA I also use seeing AI as well as having my son read the information on the papers. I hope this helps.
> Ken 
> 
> 
>> On Sep 29, 2020, at 5:40 PM, Danielle Rath via BlParent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> Hello,
>> I am wondering if you guys would be able to help me out with this. I have a six-year-old daughter who is in first grade and she is doing an online program through her elementary school. However a lot of the apps are not accessible. There are also workbook assignments that I cannot read. I am wondering how some of the other parents are handling these situations
>> Thanks
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