[nabs-l] Research Paper Help

[Jim Reed]

I am going to stop you right there. You can not do "research" on things that have not happened. Im soryy, but researching a hypothetical situation is not research; you are guessing at best, and telling a fiction story at worst. If you want to research what happens to a low vision person without funding, then you need to find an actual low vision person who doesnt have funding. Of course, at that point, is it ethical to study this person for your own benifit without trying to get them funding (or somehow get them O/M training)? 

Do yourself a favor, pick a topic that is real (one that has or does haoppen). This way emperical observations can lead you to cause/effect relationships. Even if you choose to go with a longitudinal, case-study type research model, you still need to work with real people experiencing real events. I would talk to your proffessor, and I would also talk to you schools research compliance (research ethics) board. If you get out and start doing research on actual people, you need their approval, and honestly, their approval is a good idea anyway, because you, the researcher, are liable for your screw-ups.

"From compromise and things half done, 
Keep me with stern and stubborn pride,
And when at last the fight is won, 
... Keep me still unsatisfied." --Louis Untermeyer

--- On Thu, 6/18/09, V Nork <ginisd at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: V Nork <ginisd at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [nabs-l] Research Paper Help
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 2:47 AM

Hi all, Hope any of you can help me with some information for a research topic on mobility.  It involves a hypothetical question.  What would happen to a visually impaired student on your campus if he or she needed help with orientation and mobility but had no funding from government or social agencies?  Let us say in this example the student already had basic white cane skills, but just needed to have someone walk with them until they had a route planned?  Would the college or university offer direct help?  On my campus, such help is seen as the individual responsibility of the blind student.   It is simply sink or swim if one does not have help or money to pay for it.It was suggested to me that someone who needed help should post a flyer on college bulletin boards.  It just seems to me that is reasonable to think that some member of the college or university could be designated to offer some assistance as a kind of mobility aideto do an
 initial run through so a student could get to classes each semester.  I have tried to lobby for this in a low key way, but so far my suggestions have fallen on unreceptive ears.   My request for tactile maps has also been seemingly ignored.  Is this similar or not to the situation on your campus?  Thanks for any thoughts, Ginnie
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