[nabs-l] Accommedations Letter to Professors

Sun Apr 19 20:41:52 UTC 2009

Well blindness is a disabioity under the law.

On 4/19/09, Jess <jessica.trask.reagan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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