[nabs-l] Accommedations Letter to Professors

[Len Burns]

At risk of offending,  If blindness is not a disability, one would need 
none of these services.

-Len

Hope Paulos wrote:
> 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 
> listserv"
>> <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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