[Nfb-science] Accessible Lab

[John Miller]

Hello,
I strongly recommend bringing a sighted assistant to the lab with you if
this is a college course.  In highschool, I often paired off with
another student and took notes for the group
And asked additional questions of team members after the lab to complete
missed descriptions.  
For a college lab course, my school arranged for a TA of the class to
complete the labs with me one-on-one.
I did the labs in electrical engineering and now I work as an electrical
engineer, so this method gave me the lab experience I needed to do the
job.
Cary Supalo has some lab instruments that can work for a blind person
particularly well in chemistry.
Please let us know how it goes in your lab course.
Very best,
John
 

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Hi,
I am taking an ecology class and am attending a required lab class. The
class does not seem to have any accessible measurement and other lab
tools, so I would like to hear from anyone on this list who might have
an idea of making lab work accessible.
What do you do when the teacher asks you to identify and describe the
structures of bacteria and animal cells? How do blind science students
get along in lab class? In other words, what techniques do blind science
students use to deal in situations such as when the lab assignment
requires the student to identify and explain different types of
organisms? 
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