[nabs-l] Regarding Another Blind Student on Campus

Vejas Vasiliauskas alpineimagination at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 06:59:08 UTC 2016


Hi,
I had known there were 2 other blind students on my campus, which 
is fairly small, and met one of them last week.
This student is still very high-vision but uses a cane.  He can 
travel quite well during the daytime, but not in the dark.  He 
uses magnification, and although learned Braille as a high-school 
student when his mother wanted him to, does not use it anymore.  
This I consider mostly fairly normal for a student with lots of 
functioning vision.  The main concern that I have, though, is 
that he still looks at the screen on his phone and, when it gets 
too sunny, avoids use of it altogether.  This could land him in 
potential problems in the future if it has not already.
Although he would definitely benefit from learning about 
Voice-Over and training center opportunities, I barely know him.  
What approach would you use to tell them about the help they can 
get, knowing that they may not even want the help?
The only idea I can think of is to take him somewhere for lunch 
on campus and casually bring things like how to use Voice-Over up 
without making it sound like a big deal.
What are your thoughts?
Vejas




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