[nabs-l] my test accomodation problem

Sun Apr 28 15:47:06 UTC 2013

Tyler,
I am thinking of doing that if my professor approves. I'd like to bring a 
list of terms in braille. so when they spell them I can see them in braille

At my campus, actually its really easy to find a Muslim. We have muslim 
faculty and staff; muslim students, etc.
If they are Muslim, they will know some arabic and could spell these words. 
The school is just being difficult.

I will try though and do something to assist me such as bring a list in 
braille so my grade is not compromised.
They told me they will not match the subject matter with the test which 
would put a student at a disadvantage particularly in math and science.

Thanks.
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Littlefield, Tyler
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 3:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] my test accomodation problem

Ashley:
Requesting a reader who knows arabic is pretty far out there. I'm at a
university and I really highly doubt I could find a reader that knows
arabic. If you have to, just write a list of the words in braille and
take it in. Then they can spell it out (or if it's a matching deal, you
could get the matching terms from the prof in a braille form ahead of
time--on a note taker or sit down and braille it out).

As for the math stuff, that is a bit rough and something I'd fight. I
feel like your expectations are to high on one end and you should
actually be getting accomidations on the other.
Good luck,
On 4/27/2013 10:45 PM, Ashley Bramlett 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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Ty
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