[nabs-l] One can live without disability services and others

[Gerardo Corripio]

  HI guys
It's interesting how you've guys talked about how the world comes 
crashing down when the Disability service in the college doesn't Braille 
out tests, make books available etc., so I wonder how do you think I 
managed in a country where disability services aren't heard of or known? 
By talking with the teachers, suggesting techniques for instance at 
first, they allowed me to take the tests home, and have my parents read 
me the tests and i'd answer on the computer and print them out, turning 
them to the teachers the next day as if it were homework; as the 
semesters wore on, the teachers graduated to seeing them in the 
classroom in a time when my classmates were out eating lunch or other 
activities, and orally test me; another time, I installed Jaws on the 
college's computer and I'd go and take the test there with the teacher 
in that she'd read me the questions, and I'd type in the answers, 
printing it out afterwards, generally before my classmates took the test 
in the classroom, but can you believe when the tech guys did computer 
maintainance, they erased my copy of Jaws?
Books and other written assignments? During the first semester or so, my 
parents mostly, but also from time to time other family members, 
recorded the chapters on cassettes, to which I'd listen, and take notes 
on an old Toshiba Laptop running Keysoft my parents had bought while in 
the States; as the second semester ended, however, I guess I was lucky 
because the university donated for my use, a PC with kurzweil1000 and a 
scanner, to which I afterwards put on Jaws and did all my assignments on 
there; they also donated me a NoteTaker, the Braille Lite 2000 for 
taking notes etc; as I say again, maybe it was luck, because I've 
contacted other college students, and they only dream of having these 
technologies! I guess it's one of the advantages of having gone to a 
private college, and not a public university? So there you have it; 
perseverance/determination, wins! Also support from family mostly, and 
teachers, except for those who dinde'didn't believe in my abilities and 
made the semester a nightmare! So what do you guys think? are these 
experiences worthwhile?

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Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psicólogo, Terapéuta Reiki
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