[nabs-l] Research Paper Help

Rania raniaismail04 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 23:38:16 UTC 2009


When I was learning whare my classes were I had my driver at the time who is 
a good friend of mine come with me until I got the root down and was able to 
get there on my own.
Rania,
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>I don't think the college has a legal responsibility to provide cane 
>lessons to blind students and, yes, it's the student's responsibility to 
>orient to the campus.  Having said that, this doesn't mean that nobody 
>should be available to help students orient.  It doesn't have to be the 
>disability services office.  When I was in college, I simply asked friends 
>I really trusted to walk with me around campus to orient me.  I also 
>sometimes used my mom.  If you don't think your friends are right for the 
>job, so to speak, readers are often good options.
>
> Serena
>
>
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>> 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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