[nabs-l] my test accomodation problem

[Arielle Silverman]

Your DSS counselor is definitely being negligent, but at a community
college they might not have enough readers to match every subject.
It's unfortunate but might just be a limited-resources issue. Anyway,
we've all given you several suggestions of ways to bypass an office
that isn't meeting your needs. I hope at least one of these
suggestions will work out for you.
Arielle

On 4/27/13, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is the problem I alluded to before. Usually I have worked with less
> than adaquate readers issued by this community college.
> But this is a different senario. What happened was this. I am taking a world
> religions final covering the monotheistic religions.
>
> Although its an elective I want to do well. We studied Islam and the Baha’I
> faith among other religions.
> The professor is nice and farely understanding. In fact, it was she who said
> it would be challenging to do auditorily and suggested I request a reader
> competent in Aerabic or who was Muslim. We are testing on some Arabic
> vocabulary to match with definitions.
> We also have other parts of the test .
>
>
> I requested a reader from my dss counselor and stated the desired time as
> well as explained that I need a reader who can pronounce Arabic words. I
> explained that we have foreign words because its about Islam and the Baha’I
> faith. Words for the five pillars and their holidays such as Salad, Sawm,
> Zakat, Ramadan, and Hajj.
>
> The DSS counselor responded rather rudely that they do not match  readers
> based on subject matter competency, that they only base on availability. She
> said I should know this since I’ve worked with her long enough. I of course
> do not know this as I’ve never requested this before.
>
> I might  take a list of the words we have to match for the test. This would
> help me know what the words are as the reader spells them out who likely
> won’t know how to pronounce them. I’ll also ask my professor for
> suggestions. She’ll likely just advocate with me to dss.
>
> I was planning on using the school readers, so at this late point I doubt I
> can get someone else. They need to provide competent readers. My dss
> counselor went as far as to say that if a student took a math class, they
> would not provide someone proficient in math.
>
> It is discriminatory for them not to provide a reader who can read
> adaquately. I kid you not. She really used the math class example. She’d
> really set someone up to fail by providing a student reader not familiar
> with math to read a math exam.
> Email me off list for the counselor’s exact words which I can send
> privately.
> Its appalling.
>
> The best I can do i s explain the situation to the professor and see what we
> can work out knowing that I might have an incompetent reader. What I
> probably do is rely on them spelling the words to me as we match them with
> definitions.
>
> Ashley
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