[NABS-L] Struggling in Math Class

[Carly Mihalakis]

Evening, Elizabeth,

Always provide your own specific accommodation. Failure to do this, I 
fear, might position you upon the receiving end of some run-around as 
you've already seen. They're gonna come up with any reason not to 
work with a blind FUX, so I would find some facility with the 
material before demonstrating for the powers that be that you, too, 
deserve some tutelage in the center because after all, you have some 
working knowledge of the material, at least enough for some tutors to 
help you out.
Car 408-209-3239/7/2018, Elizabeth Mohnke via NABS-L wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>Last week my college algebra class started working on log functions. 
>And they make absolutely no sense to me. And I am not completely 
>sure how to go about understanding this part of the class.
>
>The office hours for my professor are either when I am in another 
>class or when the embedded tutor for the class is running study 
>sessions for this class. When I asked the embedded tutor for this 
>class where else I could get help to understand this material, I was 
>told that I could receive more tutoring from other tutors in the 
>tutoring center.
>
>However, when I went to the tutoring center to ask about how I could 
>set up the one-on-one tutoring appointments that the embedded tutor 
>suggested, I was told this was something they no longer do. And 
>whenever I go to the tutoring center for walk-in tutoring, I am told 
>that no one is available because they already have enough students 
>in their tutoring groups.
>
>Since the student employees at the front desk could not tell me what 
>else I could do to receive the tutoring I need to understand the 
>material for my class, their supervisor came out to talk to me, and 
>I had a rather frustrating conversations with her. I was reminded 
>that the tutoring center did not hire enough math tutors to meet the 
>needs of the students on campus. Therefore, they are not able to 
>provide me with a tutor because the job of a tutor should not 
>include reading the material to me when they are tutoring me.
>
>The materials for my math class are not accessible, so I need to use 
>a reader whenever I am working on my math class. And I have been 
>doing rather well in my math class up until this point in my math 
>class. But the disabilities office is also short on readers and they 
>do not have any readers with higher level math experience that is 
>required to be a good effective reader. So there are times when I go 
>to the tutoring center to find someone to help complete my homework 
>for this class.
>
>But now that I am looking for a tutor to help me understand the 
>material, it appears as though the tutoring office thinks I am 
>looking for a reader and not a tutor. And I am not able to convince 
>them that I am looking for a tutor and not a reader despite how many 
>times I repeat myself.
>
>I have tried reading through the examples in the homework as well as 
>the textbook with my reader. But it all sounds rather confusing to 
>me. And so I am really out of ideas as to what to do to understand 
>this material for my math class. Does anyone have any suggestions as 
>to what I might be able to do? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Elizabeth
>So does anyone have any ideas as
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