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

[Elizabeth Mohnke]

Hello All,,

If I cannot understand the voice from NVDA then what good is it going to be
for me to practice using it? No amount of practice is going to change this
for me.

The only recording device I have is a Victor Stream. So how exactly would
this option work for me? It would seem to me the only way to allow my
professor to listen to my answers would be to give her my victor stream. I
would not feel comfortable doing this because I have all my reading
materials on it. And since the victor stream has its own special recording
format, I cannot just simply save a copy of the recording and send it to my
professor.

It seems as though there would be too many logistics for this option. And I
have absolutely no idea if the disabilities office would allow such an
accommodation. The disabilities office seems to be rather controlling in
what it is willing to approve of as an accommodation.

Elizabeth
-----Original Message-----
From: Mikayla Gephart [mailto:mikgephart at icloud.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 5:13 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Elizabeth Mohnke <lizmohnke at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] A Struggling Blind Student Looking for Some Advice

Elizabeth, I understand some of the frustration. We are not at all implying
that a training center would solve all your problems. How many of our
members have left a training center, only to still need help with their
colleges? could you practice with NVDA from wherever you are emailing right
now? The more you practice, the better. Blindness and health problems do not
have to stop you from living the life y want.  

Sent from my iPad

> On Jan 29, 2016, at 5:02 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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