[nabs-l] Research Paper Help

[Serena]

I only meant that they legally don't have to provide cane lessons, not that 
they morally shouldn't do it.  Plus, the disability office doesn't 
necessarily know anything about blindness before the first blind student 
comes on campus, so might not be the best option.  Asking the office for 
some responsible students to orient the blind students could be helpful.

Serena


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From: <sarah.jevnikar at utoronto.ca>
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Research Paper Help


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> 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?
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> Quoting Serena <serenacucco at verizon.net>:
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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.
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>> Serena
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "V Nork" <ginisd at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
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>> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 4:47 AM
>> Subject: [nabs-l] Research Paper Help
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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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