[nabs-l] accomodations in public school

[Serena]

I had cane travel, too, although I'm not considering it an accommodation 
cause it was through my Commission for the Blind and I thought Ashley meant 
things the school did to make things easier, like extra time.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hope Paulos" <hope.paulos at maine.edu>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accomodations in public school


>I had brailled handouts, brailled texts and audio texts, orientation and 
>mobility training and extra time on tests.  These were extremely effective.
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Rania" <raniaismail04 at gmail.com
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>>Date sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 16:34:38 -0500
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>
>>I had braille extra time on tests my books and hand outs were
> also brailled.
>>Rania,
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net
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>>Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 3:05 PM
>>Subject: [nabs-l] accomodations in public school
>
>
>>> Hi all,
>
>>> I'm asking this for a class as well as to compare my experience
> to yours.
>>> I had pretty decent services.  I got braille and audio books and
> my TVI
>>> was good at giving braille handouts and I got extra time on
> tests.
>>> As we have discussed before, I struggled fitting in socially
> though.
>
>>> In my psychology of individuals with disabilities class, I was
> asked to
>>> present about visual impairment and accomodations and other
> academic
>>> impact.  So my questions.
>>> 1.  What accomodations did you use?
>>> 2.  Were they effective? If you used print you may have been
> more effective
>>> with braille.
>
>>> 3.  What should have been done that was not?
>
>>> Common accomodations I can think of are: large print or braille
> handouts,
>>> audio texts, and extended time on tests.
>
>>> Thanks
>>> Ashley
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