[nabs-l] accomodations in public school

[Franandiah Damstra]

Hello everyone. I'm new here and I just want to say, YOU ALL ARE
LUCKY! I go to a very small christian private schools, and I get
nothing! I get "enlarged" assignments and extended tests, but that is
about it. Though I know braille, nobody will provide it for me. My
sight is 20/800. I am colour blind, I don't have either preferal
vision or depth perseption and yet all I ever hear is "Oh, you have
some sight so use it!" So consider yourselves VERY lucky. I would do
anything to get braille books. I can't read this print much longer, I
go home crying because my eyes are burning so badly. You all are
luckier than you know.

On 11/4/08, hannah <sparklylicious at suddenlink.net> wrote:
> All of my materials are brailled or on audio, but I don't get
> extra time on tests...
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Rania" <raniaismail04 at gmail.com
>>To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>>Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 16:34:38 -0500
>>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accomodations in public school
>
>>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
>>To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
>><nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>>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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