[nabs-l] Accommedations Letter to Professors

Sun Apr 19 06:51:45 UTC 2009

Hope,

I completely agree with the below.  My blindness is a disability, but it 
is not the organizing factor of my life, much as others try to make this 
so at times.

-L

Hope Paulos wrote:
> 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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