[nabs-l] my test accomodation problem

Littlefield, Tyler tyler at tysdomain.com
Sun Apr 28 07:39:51 UTC 2013


hey ashley,
I was just sort of curious what school you went to. Sometimes there's 
stuff online that can help in tracking people down.

On 4/27/2013 11:20 PM, Ashley Bramlett wrote:
> Arielle,
> Thank you. I think its an issue that the dss doesn't want to go the 
> extra mile in helping out.
> She said she would not do it for other subjects. I thought legally 
> they had to provide something workable.
>
> I will speak to the professor about this and see what she can offer. I 
> can not use a TA  as we don't have them. It might just be that I bring 
> a  list of these foreign terms with me to aide in reading them and 
> knowing what they are.
> Maybe the professor knows someone in the department that I'm unaware 
> of that can assist me. I doubt it; it’s a small department but worth 
> asking about.
>
> I just checked our disability service webpage on the website. No 
> policies are on there about test taking and readers.
> I'll check the handbook as well once I get one.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
> Ashley
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Arielle Silverman
> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 12:59 AM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] my test accomodation problem
>
> 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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