[nabs-l] Online degree programs

Sun Jul 19 20:51:11 UTC 2009

Hi Jen and all,

Jen, if your instructor at the Carroll center recommended Kurzweil,
contact her and ask her to re-write your report with the Kurzweil 1000
recommendation included. This seems like a reasonable request
especially if it could mean the difference between getting and not
getting it. Also inform your rehab counselor that because of your
hearing loss E-texts are much more accessible to you than are audio
materials. This alone should put you further up the chain for
receiving Kurzweil. Kurzweil is extremely useful not only for scanning
hard copies of textbooks, but also for converting PDF versions of
E-textbooks and papers into a format that you can understand.

Also see if the university you want to attend has any public computing
facilities with scanners and OCR software available to blind students.
This might be a viable option if you can't get your own personal copy
of Kurzweil.

Arielle

On 7/20/09, Robert Jaquiss <rjaquiss at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hello:
>
>      It is my view that a student is likely to need K1000 software
> regardless of the school he/she attends. My wife is a student at Walden and
> she has had to buy textbooks. If you are studying a technical field such as
> IT or computer science, you might have a better chance of finding electronic
> versions of the books you want.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Antonio M. Guimaraes" <iamantonio at cox.net>
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 12:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Online degree programs
>
>
>> Hi Jen,
>>
>> I thought to contact you privately first, but I wonder, if you don't mind
>> sharing it with the list, why the state won't purchase Kurzweil for you.
>>
>> Do they not realize you are blind, and thus print-disabled, and so would
>> need to scan college materials for school?
>>
>> do you, and do they understand that perhaps limmiting you to online
>> schools with accessible electronic texts is severely limmiting your
>> options, and that the one thing between you and an URI or some other
>> college education is a $1000 scanning software?
>>
>> More importantly, do you think it worth it to get one of us here in RI on
>> board with you, and pushing, convincing the counselor, or giving you some
>> guidance about your accomodations, and how you could put up a bit more of
>> a fight for them?
>>
>> It's not about what you want, but about what you'll need to succeed, or
>> even have a basic chance to access information in college.
>>
>> Antonio Guimaraes
>>
>> If an infinite number of rednecks riding in an infinite number of pickup
>> trucks fire an infinite number of shotgun rounds at an infinite number of
>> highway signs, they will eventually produce all the world's great literary
>>
>> works in Braille.
>>
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jennifer Aberdeen" <freespirit328 at gmail.com>
>> To: "NABS-L" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 12:15 AM
>> Subject: [nabs-l] Online degree programs
>>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if any of the online Universities, such as the
>>> University of Phoenix, have all their reading material available in
>>> e-text directly from the website?
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if I'm going to take any classes. One of my biggest
>>> obstacles, and I'm sure for a lot of other blind people, is not having
>>> access to my text books. I can't scan my books because the state won't
>>> purchase Kurzweil for me, and listening to it on tape doesn't work
>>> because of my hearing problem. The best way is with e-text, but I'm not
>>> sure who has it and how easy or complicated it is to use.
>>>
>>> I tried AIU, but they didn't have most of their books avaiable in an
>>> accessible format.
>>>
>>> Jen
>>>
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Arielle Silverman
President, National Association of Blind Students
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