[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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