[nabs-l] international students

Sat Nov 29 22:24:26 UTC 2014

Hi Elif and all,
Joining the party a bit late, but I am also interested in advocating 
for and helping out international students in the U.S.
I am Miso, a sophomore attending University of California Los Angeles, 
majoring in psychology and minoring in disability studies and 
education. I am originally from South Korea and have been in the U.S. 
for about 7 years now.
Please feel free to email me off list and I agree with Kartik that 
conference may be a good idea.
Best,
Miso

-----Original Message-----
From: Kartik Sawhney via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
To: Elif Emir <filerime at gmail.com>; National Association of Blind 
Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tue, Nov 11, 2014 8:11 pm
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] international students

Hey Elif,

I'm Kartik. I'm a sophomore at Stanford University studying Computer
Science. I'm from India. I've been thinking on similar lines for quite
sometime now, and I think it'll be awesome to chat more about it to
see what we can do together. Same goes for anyone (international or
not) who is interested. Let's plan a conference to discuss this
further.

In the meanwhile, Elif, feel free to reach out, or share your contact 
details.

Best,

On 11/11/14, Elif Emir via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Well I admit that I got more accommodation's here than I had back in
> Turkey in terms of the accessible course materials. This is wonderful.
> The problem is being lack of social support which can be a back up
> when there is no accommodation.
> Plus this is a huge culture shock.
> In this situation it is very hard to locate in a new country, lern how
> and where to do shopping, find a way for transportation, how to call
> for a cab, learn the naberhood and campus to navegate independently,
> discover the food, brands, health system, learn how to recognize
> dollar bills and coin, write a check, so and so.
> an international student has to figure all these out very shortly in
> order to survive. Blindness and language make this harder. So some
> daily living assistance at the beginning would be very cool.
> Anyway, if there is any international students here please reach me.
> We can advocate for future generations together.
>
>
>
> 2014-11-11 0:29 GMT-05:00, Kaiti Shelton via nabs-l 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is definitely dialog which should happen.  I think that domestic
>> students also have a lot to learn from international students, and we
>> could all benefit from more open communication.
>>
>> So, do tell us what you think we could do to help, but also remember
>> to speak up.  I was totally unaware of the lack of accommodations
>> available to students who are not U.S citizens until very recently,
>> and I doubt I'm the only one who isn't very knowledgeable on this.  
If
>> you have ideas based on what you did for accommodations in your home
>> country that you think could help students in the U.S, share those
>> too.
>>
>> I think If we're all open and provide helpful suggestions, everyone
>> will benefit.
>>
>> On 11/10/14, zeynep sule yilmaz via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Elif, that's a great topic to talk about here too. I'm asking all 
the
>>> NABS members. How NABS can support international students better? Is
>>> there any idea? Most of us had or still have some problems because 
of
>>> being international student. This may be lack of the information and
>>> resources that are available to American sitizens with 
disabilities. I
>>> know that being a strong self-advocate is always what we would like,
>>> however, we need support from native students sometimes.  I would 
like
>>> to know, if any of the NABS members have any idea on that.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Zeynep
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-11-10 13:02 GMT-06:00, Darian Smith via nabs-l 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>   We have an "International Students" E-mail list that can be found
>>>> among
>>>> the  collection of list serves  of the NFB at www.nfbnet.org
>>>> <http://www.nfbnet.org/>.
>>>>   I'm sure there are international students on the NABS list, but I
>>>> suspect
>>>> there are more of them on the International  Students List.
>>>>    Hope this is helpful to you.
>>>>   Best,
>>>>   Darian
>>>>> On Nov 10, 2014, at 10:05 AM, Elif Emir via nabs-l 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> My name is Elif.
>>>>> I'm a graduate student from Turkey.
>>>>> I'm wondering how many international students are we in this 
group?
>>>>> Or is there anyone who knows about an international blind student 
who
>>>>> is not a member of this e-mail group?
>>>>> Could you contact me from here my personal e-mail to discuss 
about the
>>>>> accommodation's we have, problems spessific to international 
students
>>>>> and adjustment issues.
>>>>> I want to get together online, and talk to each other and support 
each
>>>>> other about these internationally spessific issues.
>>>>> Best
>>>>> Elif Emir Oksuz
>>>>> filerime at gmail.com
>>>>>
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