[nabs-l] College Expenses that Blind Students Encounter.

Christina Moore christina.moore16 at houghton.edu
Fri Apr 15 11:21:41 UTC 2016


My school provides readers/scribes for as much time as I need.
I have had expenses related to the costs of having a service dog.

God Bless,
Christina

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Munawar Bijani via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
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Date sent: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 02:40:02 -0400
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] College Expenses that Blind Students 
Encounter.

Sure.  When I was in university I was sad to discover that VR 
will only
pay for a reader the equivalent credit hours of the course a 
week.
Naturally, for math and science courses I needed more than three 
hours
a week of a reader.  The rest of the cost came out of my pocket.

I paid for four or five readers over the course of my university
studies.  Had I not been receiving SSDI at the time, this would 
not
have been possible, because the Pel Grant was insufficient to 
cover
the expenses.

On 4/14/16, Glenn III via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
 Hi all,

 I’m presenting at our IL Spring seminar on college financing, 
and the one
 puzzle piece I’m missing is expected college expenses specific 
to blind
 students.  I looked online, and searched NABS archives back to 
12 months,
 but I can’t find what I’m looking for.

        While I know some folks anticipate Voc.  Rehab covering 
basically all
 costs, I think it’s prudent for a blind student to budget what 
their
 potential expenses are ahead of time, especially if you end up 
not having
 things covered.  I could give examples of my own college time 
(not to
 mention friends who ended up paying out of pocket for things 
that other
 students didn’t have to worry about), but I think my 
experience is not
 going to cover important things many blind students encounter, 
so…



 Could people here offer some examples of blindness-specific 
expenses they
 encountered in college that should be budgeted for?


 Thanks, so much.
 -Glenn Moore III
 State Secretary,
 National Federation of the Blind of Illinois
 (find our calendar at nfbofillinois.org/?page_id=158)
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