[nagdu] college & guide dogs

Julie J julielj at windstream.net
Sat May 30 23:04:15 UTC 2009


BTW if you don't use Braille just about all the note takers that I know of 
also come in a QWERTY layout with audio output. I'm assuming that you can 
still use the GPS module with these versions.

HTH
Julie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nicole B. Torcolini" <ntorcolini at wavecable.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] college & guide dogs


> It's Nicole; I'm the one who mentioned the GPS.  Do you have any kind of
> Braille notetaker to which you can add the GPS or would you need to buy a
> whole new unit?  I use a BrailleNote with the GPS.  It's not always fool
> proof, though.  I also carry a Braille compass.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Katrin Andberg" <katrin at maplewooddog.com>
> To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 6:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] college & guide dogs
>
>
> Thank you all for the advice.  I will be commuting to campus from my home,
> about a 30min commute via the train then subway then bus, so no need to
> worry about on-campus housing.  James and I have done routes like that
> before so once I learn the train schedule and where the subway and bus 
> stops
> are I'm not too concerned about that being an issue.  What I am more
> concerned about is learning routes on such a large campus (I'll be going 
> to
> UMass Boston).  But James is rather good at learning to guide me to 
> specific
> places so I think if we go early enough before school starts and practice,
> practice, practice the routes, we should be ok.  Thanks for the idea on
> looking into a GPS whomever that was.  That might be a good thing for me 
> as
> when I get really, really lost I tend to panic and everything starts to 
> look
> the same and my ability to remember left and right goes out the window, 
> even
> with a map and I'm generally pretty good with maps as long as I study them
> well beforehand.
>
>
>
> I am planning to go back to school for engineering.  That's what I
> originally went for 7 years ago and what I'm still interested in.  I'm
> looking into the college's disability office to see what I have to do to 
> be
> allowed to do things like tape record lectures and things like that and
> James of course will go with me when I stop in there so I'm going to 
> assume
> they'll know about him that way and I guess if they have any issues 
> they'll
> bring it up then, but I hope it will be as you folks say and a non issue.
>
>
>
> Thanks again
>
>
>
> Katrin & James
>
>
>
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