[nabs-l] Research Paper Help

[sarah.jevnikar at utoronto.ca]

I would respectfully disagree. I think it's 100% the school's  
responsibility to orient the student to campus. If the student wishes  
to learn the surrounding city/town they should find their own way of  
doing it, but how can a office for students with disabilities properly  
assist their students academically if the students don't know the way  
to class?


Quoting Serena <serenacucco at verizon.net>:

> 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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