[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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