[nfb-db] College

[Janice Toothman]

Hi Jennifer,
I used the FM System or Assistive Listening Device that Chris mentioned 
and had a transcriber that took notes on what was said and what was 
written on the Board/overhead projector.  As far as movies,  have your 
instructor inform you in advance so that you can watch it by yourself 
with an interpreter or transcriber or whatever works for you so that you 
can be prepared to discuss the movie in class.  That is what my 
professors did.
Above all-Do not let your Deaf-Blindness keep you from pursuing your 
academic goals.
Janice

On 7/28/2015 8:44 AM, MemberService via nfb-db wrote:
> *Hi,*
> *This is betty banks, I heard your message loud and clear, I have 
> similar problems and whom ever you deal with on a educational level 
> must provide what you need, make some noise! get your congressman 
> involved if you have to! get your ada law involved if you have to! you 
> cannot sit on this one. You have to advocate for yourself, it seems 
> hard at first, but it is not, I know all too well! each college have a 
> disability department, be smart*
> *go to your commission for the blind and tell them your problems in 
> the school setting and you have to talk to those teachers that keep 
> their back to you! I bet you their not even aware, and if they do not 
> listen, have Jan network come in and give a presentation, JAN's 
> NETWORK is an organization that will try and alleviate such problems 
> as well! you can punch them in on your computer, and please stay in 
> touch! because I want to know the outcome!*
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jennifer Woods via nfb-db <nfb-db at nfbnet.org>
> To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List <nfb-db at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Jennifer Woods <jenn.purplepuppy2 at icloud.com>
> Sent: Tue, Jul 28, 2015 2:32 am
> Subject: [nfb-db] College
>
> Hi, To those of you who have a fair amount of residual hearing, but no 
> useable vision and know how to sign. How did you communicate when you 
> were attending college? How did you take notes in class? The college 
> that I am considering attending only gives one option either CART or 
> an Interpreter. I have not received formal tactile training and that 
> is something that the school is asking me to do before I come back. I 
> have quite a bit of residual hearing, but I do not do well in loud 
> situations, nor with people who are soft spoken, so when people ask 
> questions behind me, or the teacher has their back to the direction of 
> where I am sitting I do not understand everything if anything. This 
> obviously presents a problem when attending college as I am not able 
> to ask the teacher to repeat every time I don’t understand something. 
> I am currently working on learning Braille. but I know that I can not 
> read fast enough to keep up with CART using Braille. How do you know 
> what is written up on the board? When I went to school previsouly I 
> had to have someone in class take notes for me and I hoped that the 
> person taking notes got the information that I needed. This was hard 
> for me because I had to find someone who brought a laptop or iPad with 
> them to school not as many people brought laptops to the Community 
> College as I thought would. What did you do when a movie would be 
> shown? How did you know what was being said and what was going on 
> visually? I do ok with Voice Over, but I have to listen to it a few 
> times sometimes, so I know that will not work for taking tests. Any 
> experience and advice would be appreciated. Thanks Jennifer 
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