[nabs-l] A Struggling Blind Student Looking for Some Advice

[Jamie Principato]

This is a brief reply. I'll add more. But if the concern is short answers and essay answers  on tests, why not use a tape recorder and give your responses orally? I did this once when typing wasn't an option and working with a scribe would be unreasonably difficult. 

-Jamie Principato 

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> On Jan 29, 2016, at 3:02 PM, Elizabeth Mohnke via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I honestly wish I had never posted my email to this email list. I really hate the fact that it just seems like all you are wanting to do is tell me that an NFB training center is somehow going to solve all the problems in my life. Even if I could ever go to an NFB training center, I will probably never gain the Braille skills necessary to be able to use them in a testing situation.
> 
> I have never used a smart phone before, so this option would not work for me. There is absolutely no way I would be able to learn how to use it good enough to use for a test that is in two weeks. I am already trying to catch up in this class after being sick, so I am not looking to add anything more to my plate than what is already on it.
> 
> Using NVDA sounds like a good option, but again, I have never used it before, and I cannot understand the voice that comes with it . So I am not quite sure how this option would work for me.
> 
> I am sorry that I am not able to fight my college and the vocational rehabilitation all on my own. The Client Assistant Program does not do much of anything here. And no one in the NFB has never really been willing to help me either. All I wanted to do was to find a way to pass this class. But it looks as though I simply do not have the support, resources, and capacity to do the things I wanted to be able to do before my accident.
> 
> I should have never signed up to take this class. I really did not have the money to pay for it in the first place, and right now it just feels like this was only a waste of my money. And I should just learn that I am never going to be the same person that I was before my accident.
> 
> Elizabeth
> 
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