[Mdpobc] Biology class accommodations

Tue Nov 16 22:19:31 UTC 2010

Thank you all for helping with this. 

Trudy L Pickrel
President MDPOBC
           &
TLC by the Lake 
Standard Poodles
www.tlcbythelake.weebly.com

On Nov 16, 2010, at 4:45 PM, "Jacobs, William O." <WOJacobs at nfb.org> wrote:

> Hi Maureen,
> 
> My name is William Jacobs and I work here at the National Center for the
> Blind.  I consulted with Anil Lewis who has been on the scholarship
> board for the NFB for many years as to a suggestion and he suggested to
> contact Cary Supalo at the following email address:
> 
> Cas380 at psu.edu
> 
> I will refer this email to Natalie Shaheen also for any input from her.
> Best wishes and good luck.
> 
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>   1. Re: Biology class accommodations (Melissa Ann Riccobono)
>   2. Fwd: Victor Stream (Trudy Pickrel)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:26:48 -0500
> From: "Melissa Ann Riccobono" <melissa at riccobono.us>
> To: "'Maryland Parents of Blind Children List'" <mdpobc at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [Mdpobc] Biology class accommodations
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> Hello Maureen,
> I am totally blind, and when I took biology I actually hired a lab
> assistant
> to help me.  I used money from Wisconsin's Department of Vocational
> Rehabilitation (the same as DORS in Maryland) to pay this
> reader/assistant.
> This person was a biology major herself, and had taken the class I was
> taking before.  She was truly my eyes during the lab.  She described
> what
> she saw in the microscope--although we didn't use a microscope much
> actually, helped me with the dissection of a rat, and described anything
> else visual that was going on in the class.  She used a raised line
> drawing
> board in order to draw things for me I could feel.  This was a good
> arrangement because I did not need to rely on other students in the
> class to
> do anything special or extra for me.  My professors did what they could
> to
> help with visual things, and explained a lot verbally and with models I
> could feel whenever possible.  The assistant really helped though.  Just
> some thoughts.
> Melissa
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdpobc-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:mdpobc-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Maureen Austen
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 10:51 AM
> To: mdpobc at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Mdpobc] Biology class accommodations
> 
> Hi,
> My son, in college, will be taking biology next semester.  He has some
> vision yet, but I know he'll have a hard time seeing anything in the
> microscope.  Does anyone have any suggestions for successful
> accommodations in a science lab?  Thanks so much, Maureen Austen
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:54:32 -0500
> From: Trudy Pickrel <tlpickrel at hotmail.com>
> To: Maryland Children List Parents of Blind <mdpobc at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [Mdpobc] Fwd: Victor Stream
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> Trudy L Pickrel
> President MDPOBC
>           &
> TLC by the Lake 
> Standard Poodles
> www.tlcbythelake.weebly.com
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> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: Mollyne Honor <mrhonor at LBPH.LIB.MD.US>
>> Date: November 15, 2010 3:47:38 PM EST
>> To: LBPH_INFO-L at LISTSRV.MSDE.STATE.MD.US
>> Subject: Victor Stream
>> Reply-To: Mollyne Honor <mrhonor at LBPH.LIB.MD.US>
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> We have 12 Victor Streams available for loan for 6 months. Anyone
> interested in trying it out?
>> 
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