[nabs-l] Statistics course

[Bridget Walker]

Hi,

i understand how you are feeling I do not believe that you should be expected to transcribe all of you work I have played that game and it is not practical. i also completely agree that you should not have to dictate what you want to put in to the calculator. Furthermore, I have a limited background in the BrailleSense meaning i know it has a calculator however, I do not know how far you can o with it. That being said I would be highly annoyed with your disabilities office. It sounds to me like they are playing assistive technology specialist and failing. Your college should be able o find a way to get you work transcribed. I attend Dominican College and they help me with transcription all the time. I am still looking in to this because it is everywhere and so may people are faced with the challengers of college math. Let me see what other ideas I can come up with. I hope mor ideas come through. 

Bridget   

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On Jan 6, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Bridget,
> 
> I have a question based on your last email.  I too am starting my
> stats course next week and am a little worried about my assignments
> and such.  I had a really old-school braille instructor who taught me
> to use a Perkins brailler all through high school math, but now my
> disability services people want me to learn math player and do
> everything on the computer, which is a little intimidating simply
> because I've never used the computer for math before.  They want me to
> do this though since there is no practical way to translate the
> braille, as we don't have a transcriber or anyone sighted who could
> convert my answers.  They also want me to sit with someone and tell
> them which buttons to push every time we use a graphing calculator.  I
> suggested checking out the stats functions in the BrailleSense
> calculator as well as AGC, but they claim it doesn't have all the
> functions my professor wants us to use.  Like the computer, I'm not
> familiar with print calculators, obviously since I've never used one.
> I know they have random buttons like ABC and such, but I don't know
> what those do and wouldn't know when to use them.  I'm not really
> comfortable going into stats using these things I've never used
> before.  Would you, or anyone else, have other suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> On 1/6/13, Bridget Walker <bridgetawalker13 at aol.com> wrote:
>> Hi Justin,
>> During my first year of college I took college algebra and I have a friend
>> who took psychology statistics last year. We are both Braille readers. I
>> found it was helpful to take notes in my preferred format. Any assignments
>> that I needed to turn in I had a scribe for as did she. We both took
>> advantage of the tutoring  center and all of our accommodations.  My best
>> advice would be speak to your professor often, if you need help along the
>> way tutoring and direct instruction from the professor are a good way to go.
>> I never had a problem with accommodations in any of my math or science
>> courses and I'm sure you will be fine.
>> 
>> Best of luck
>> 
>> Bridget
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On Jan 2, 2013, at 6:58 PM, Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi All!
>>> 
>>> Hope the New Year is treating you all well!  I have to take a
>>> Statistics course and haven't gone through this course before.  I was
>>> wondering if any could give any pointers on how they survived the
>>> course?  Any suggestions/advice would be much appreciated!
>>> 
>>> Justin
>>> 
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> Kaiti
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