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

[Jamie Principato]

The disability office probably has a tape recorder. Also, if you don't understand a speech synthesizer, practice actually does help with that. It's just like how toddlers don't understand grown up speech until they've listened to it a lot. A big part of it is to not throw ideas out with an "I can't" or "I'll never be able to" right off the bat. 

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> On Jan 29, 2016, at 3:35 PM, 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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