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

Christina Moore christina.moore16 at houghton.edu
Sat Jan 30 03:29:56 UTC 2016


I had to do this for some short answer questions on my statistics exam. 

--Christina

> On Jan 29, 2016, at 21:31, Carly Mihalakis via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Evening, List,
> 
> That is a good suggestion~! 'smatter of cfact, at times I was editing my writing with sighted student writing tutors, I used the in class computers in exactly that manner. And, it works well.
> CarAt 04:02 PM 1/29/2016, Jamie Principato via nabs-l wrote:
>> Another option would be to type your responses without JAWS, and have a scribe or reader read it back to you and help you correct typos and errors it's still your independent work, but you'd have a reader do the job of JAWS until the school gets the computers with jaws fixed.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> > On Jan 29, 2016, at 4:56 PM, Elizabeth Mohnke via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello Jamie,
>> >
>> > How can you assume the disabilities office would have a tape recorder? As
>> > far as I can tell, the disabilities office does not have much of anything.
>> >
>> > And if I have a difficult time using the screen reader voice that I have
>> > been using for years, I do not believe I would be able to learn how to use a
>> > new voice that I simply cannot understand.
>> >
>> > I am sorry if you do not understand or believe me. And I am even more sorry
>> > that I posted my question about how to take my exam on this email list.
>> > Having everyone jump down my throat about not being able to attend an NFB
>> > training center or not having perfect Braille skills was definitely not what
>> > I needed today. It looks as though the positive support of the NFB is for
>> > everyone else besides me.
>> >
>> > Elizabeth.
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jamie
>> > Principato via nabs-l
>> > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 6:31 PM
>> > To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> > Cc: Jamie Principato <blackbyrdfly at gmail.com>
>> > Subject: Re: [nabs-l] A Struggling Blind Student Looking for Some Advice
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPhone
>> >
>> >>> 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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