[nabs-l] college ebooks question

Sat Mar 22 21:04:15 UTC 2014

John,
I don't mean to be nosy or judgemental. But I'm wondering why you need a 
scribe in class.
Many schools offer notetakers in class or what is often called scribes.

Can you take your own notes? I don't know if you have a disability that 
makes it hard to write while listening.
What was done in high school? For me, I always took my notes with a brailler 
or electronic notetaker.
How about bringing something with you to class to take notes? If you have a 
braille notetaker this works well such as a braille Note or braille sense.
You can also bring a tablet device assuming you have one with a keyboard; 
this might be an ipad orwindows tablet. Some students even use laptops but I 
never did that as it would be hard to hear jaws and the professor.

I don't know why you'd neet someone to write for you; a reader I understand, 
but a writer, hmm.

Also I'm wondering why won't the school assign a notetaker for class now? 
True, you did not supply your receits,
but why does this affect your request for in class support? These are 
separate accomodations. Your textbooks  are contingent on the receits. But 
requesting in class support is not contingent on getting your texts.
This really does not make sense to me.
VTW, I had some notetakers for certain classes and it was helpful. My 
grammar professor wrote lots of examples on the board, and yes she read 
aloud, but it was fast, and I liked getting to review it later; my notetaker 
copied down the examples; and no way I could copy it down as she read it.
Same with interpersonal communication; he also wrote key outlines on the 
board, and my notetaker's notes were helpful.

So, I'm not knocking the class support. I'm just suggesting you take your 
own notes if possible.

Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: John Sanders
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 1:11 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] college ebooks question

Hi,
What makes it worse is that both of my classes I'm taking are 8 weeks long.
With out a reader and some one to write, it's going to be hard for me to get
caught back up with the rest of the class.
It's my fault for not notifying the Office of disability supported services
that I needed these accomidations ahead of time.
This is a lesson that I've learned and will make sure it doesn't happen
again.
The community college that I'm going to is trying to go towards what my
major University, Michigan State University is doing. That's not providing
any accomidations at all.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
John Sanders

-----Original Message----- 
From: Loren Wakefield
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 11:53 AM
To: 'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] college ebooks question

It's not just that.  Even once a receipt is turned in, it can still take
several weeks to get the books.  And when you are dealing with a class with
lots of reading, or is on an accelerated schedule, it can be fun trying to
catch up.

Loren

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Helga Schreiber
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 9:17 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] college ebooks question

Hi guys, this is Helga. I think buying the books and bring a receipt is not
really so good. They are actually very expensive. It's not need for us to
purchase books with our own money since we can't  read it and we are going
to get an electronic copy of it. But the only way if we are buying the book
is we have financial aid in order to buy them. But Financial Aid always
comes four or two days before class and that is not good for us since we are
not able to get our books in text or something! I think they should give
Financial aid to all visually impaired studets and other disabled students
in order to buy the books before hand so that they can give it to the DSS
office! What do you think about this? Just curious! Hope to hear from you
soon. Thanks so much and God bless!! :)

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 22, 2014, at 8:59 AM, "Loren Wakefield" <theweird1 at mediacombb.net> 
> wrote:
>
> Ed proof that you have paid them for their work.  Why should they give you 
> it for free?
>
> Loren
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of John Sanders
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 9:19 PM
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nabs-l] college ebooks question
>
> Hi all,
> I have a question:  I’m currently attending Lansing Community College and 
> the Office of disability services department is saying that if I want to 
> have a inclass assistant and have my textbooks translated in to etext, I 
> need to buy the books and show the receipt that I had bought the books.
> Why is this required?
> I hope to hear from you soon.
> Sincerely,
> John Sanders
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