[nabs-l] Accommedations Letter to Professors

Sun Apr 19 10:55:03 UTC 2009

Hope and all,
Hudson Valley Community College  the most recent college  I've attended. 
The way the Disability Resource Center handled that was they done actually 
physically write a letter but instead they fill out a form and check off 
what accommodations you as the student  think that you are going to need. 
and it is up to you as the student to make  sure your professors get the 
sheet.. Then what I personally do is I send sent an email to each one of my 
professors introducing myself.And, I also sent some information to each one 
of the about my visual impairment just to educate them a bit about my visual 
impairment.
Jessica
----- Original Message ----- From: "Hope Paulos" <hope.paulos at maine.edu>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Accommedations Letter to Professors


> 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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