[nabs-l] Accommedations Letter to Professors

Sat Apr 18 22:29:36 UTC 2009

Dear Len- You're absolutely correct. Perhaps I should  have phrased it 
better . <smile> I don't  consider my blindness to be a disability in that I 
don't let it stop me from doing what I want to do. I agree with you that we 
need accommodations. That's why I posted about the bad experience with not 
getting books on time.
No  offense taken!

Hope and Beignet
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Len Burns" <len at gatamundo.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Accommedations Letter to Professors

> 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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