[nabs-l] Accommedations Letter to Professors

[Hope Paulos]

In my case the Dss office wrote the accommodation letters.  My 
professors would then contactme to seeif I needed anything extra.  
Before I transfered to the college I attend now, I received no 
(or very little) accommodation.  In fact, I'd contact the dss 
office to obtain my books in alternative formats at the beginning 
of the summer and would receive them in the middle of the 
semester, long after the class had started.  If it was not for my 
parents acting as readers (these courses were i tv courses and 
were similar to distance education courses), I would nh passed 
the class.  Although I don't believe my blindness to be a 
disability, I think reasonable  accommodations are essential.  A 
separate introduction to your peers? Not necessary.  Books in 
accessible format? Essential!
Hope and Beignet

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sarah Alawami" <marrie12 at gmail.com
>To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:51:35 -0700
>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Accommedations Letter to Professors

>I have to follow the rules of the disability office .  I am by 
nature a rule
>follower pluss it makes things a little easier for me as it 
already lists
>the accomadations I am elegable for for that school.  But that's 
just my 2
>sense worth.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
>Of Serena
>Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 7:03 PM
>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Accommedations Letter to Professors

>Hi Jordan

>Do you really think you or the DSS Office has to write a letter 
to your
>profs.  in the first place?  Blind people have a right to simply 
walk into
>class, without any special explanation, just like sighted people.  
When I
>was in college, the disability person wrote letters for me, 
without asking
>me if I wanted her to.  I guess, I didn't think to say no to it 
at that
>time.  My wheelchair using friend Anthony, however, requested 
that the
>disability person not write accommodations letters for him cuz he 
believed
>he didn't need any special introduction just cuz he uses a 
wheelchair.

>Serena


>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jordan Richardson" <lilrichie411 at gmail.com
>To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
><nabs-l at nfbnet.org>; "MnABS listserve" <mn-abs at nfbnet.org>; "WABS 
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><wabs at nfbwis.org
>Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 7:58 PM
>Subject: [nabs-l] Accommedations Letter to Professors


>hi all,
>i just talked to the person at the DSS office today and one of 
the things
>that we talked was the accommedations letter to the professors.  
Now, i had
>heard about this through Jeff Thompson and MnABS.  Is it better 
to have the
>DSS office write the letter and send it to me for revisions, or 
for me to
>just write the letter and to send it to my professors myself.  If 
i do the
>latter, should i tell the DSS office that i will write the letter 
myself?
>thx,

>--
>Jordan Richardson
>lilrichie411 at gmail.com
>"What is a friend? A friend is a single soul dwelling in two 
bodies"
>--Aristotle
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