[nabs-l] A bit on myself

Bridget Walker bridgetawalker13 at aol.com
Fri Jul 25 02:47:34 UTC 2014


Hi and welcome to the list.
I am not great at Spanish but I find your interest in making psychological tests accessible interesting. I am an special education major. I plan to work with students who have very debilitating disabilities. With this in mind, part of my job is to assess my students intelligence quotient. Do you have any tips? 
I know my college teaches the Wexler as one of the major tests. 
My vision is very compromised. I have light  and motion most of the time. How do you administer and evaluate these tests? I can not track down an accessible IQ test anywhere.
I hope to hear any advice. 
Best.
Bridget

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> On Jul 24, 26 Heisei, at 5:13 PM, Gerardo Corripio via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> HI guys, especially what a surprise that Sony welcomed me in Spanish! Thanks for this welcome! Anyway a bit on myself, with apologies of not wanting to sound like an autobiography: I was born October 27 1977 here in Tampico in the gulf of Mexico; I was premature at 28 weeks, thus my blindness was because of having too much oxygen in the incubator. I also have a 70% hearing loss, not knowing exactly what caused it of being premature, or of an maltreated ear infection when I was around five or six; I've been using hearing aids for almost 28 years to try compensate. Even though I hear kind of OK, I can't be out on my own on the streets because I can't distinguish right/left and other audio cues. Anyway time passed, and my folks began to worry how i'd go to school, especially because they say I was very curious and very active; wanting to learn/explore the world! Let me share a little story I remember when I was around three or so if I may before continuing with my minibiography: I made a hole in the stereo's speakers thinking that the voices I heard from the children's records (those big ones that used a needle to play) were actual people! Anyway continuing with my story: My parents (this was in the beginning of the eighties) started looking for a blind school in different cities here in Mexico, but they weren't so convinced of how they treated the kids, and upon a suggestion of a family friend, they left everything and moved to the US, where I attended school up to high school, learned the blindness stuff, started on technology, thus prepared me for confronting the real world. However I always had this longing to come back, especially to help better the quality of life of the blind here in my country, and thanks to the internet now, maybe worldwide,but more on that later. I now see how important is everything I was taught as a student, but OK maybe they didn't teach me some basics like the Slate/Stylus, or maybe my parents didn't have appropriate orientation/support by other blind adults on real expectations, but at least I learned the basics, right? Thanks to these, I returned here, feeling very prepared thanks to what I'd learned in school in the US, to begin the adventure of changing the way of the blind here in Mexico! I started university here in my hometown, being the first ever blind Psychology major to graduate; yes many obstacles like not knowing (this was in around the late 90s early 2000 when the Internet was just starting) how to adapt psychological tests, thus I feel maybe I didn't get all I could have of my studies because of the teachers not knowing how to adapt classes like Psychological testing and others, but at least I tried getting out what I could. My thesis was on the Adaptive process blind adults have to endure in order to accept blindness if that's of interest mentioning on here since it's a Student list.
> I don't know if it happened to you guys when graduating from college, but several months I was kind of depressed of OK now I'm done studying, what do I do? I clearly remember those weeks/months upon graduation how time was very very slow! Stay tuned! In another EMail (I think I've made this long enough but hope not to bore you guys, rather enrich) I'll continue my story.
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> Enviado desde mi lap
> Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psicólogo, Terapéuta Reiki
> Saludos desde Tampico, Tamaulipas México
> RompiendoBarreras espacio de psicología/Superación Personal Sábados 10PM México http://radiogeneral.com ¡los esperamos!
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