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

Christina Moore christina.moore16 at houghton.edu
Fri Jan 29 22:42:43 UTC 2016


Would it be possible for you to take your exam at an alternative time with the professor? That is not unreasonable considering you are unable to give her the Viktor reader so that she can hear your responses. You would still answer the same questions however you would just tell her the answers. It is at least something to ask about.
Hopefully this helps.

--Christina

> On Jan 29, 2016, at 17:35, Elizabeth Mohnke via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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