[nabs-l] Blind and visually impaired students in education?

Trey Bradley treyman19 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 6 07:34:27 UTC 2011


Hi I have heard these situations quite a bit from some of my friends.

On 3/6/11, Laura Glowacki <orangebutterfly87 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ashley's thread made me think of this.  Over the past several
> years, I have heard of at least 5 or 6 different blind or
> visually impaired students at 5 or 6 different schools being
> discouraged from going in to anything in the education field.
> Tactics have ranged from intimidating departmental meetings to
> find out exactly how the blind person would do everything they
> were expected to do as an education major even before the major
> was fully declared (unrealistic as even sighted students don't
> know that when they first begin), to down right being forced out
> of the program towards the end of their degree through obvious
> discrimination and not just because they were poor students
> and/or teachers..
>
> Is anyone else hearing stories like these?
>
> Laura
>
>
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