[nabs-l] accomodations in public school

Fri Nov 7 01:46:37 UTC 2008

There is no specific amount of vision loss written in law to state to switch 
to braille.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Franandiah Damstra" <fantasyfanatic01 at gmail.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
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Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accomodations in public school


>I live in Michigan. The problem is, because I go to a Christian
> school, public services cannot do much because of the separation of
> church and state. So, I'm really stuck. My question is, what type of
> vision loss is needed to state that braille should be used as the
> dominate medium instead of large print?
>
> On 11/5/08, Dezman Jackson <jackson.dezman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Franandiah,
>> This is a crying shame.
>> What state are you in? Perhaps there's someone on the list from the same
>> area or perhaps we can network you with some resources to get you what 
>> you
>> need.
>>
>> Dezman
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Franandiah Damstra" <fantasyfanatic01 at gmail.com>
>> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:11 AM
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accomodations in public school
>>
>>
>>> 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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