[Nfb-science] Organic chemistry

[Stephanie H. DeLuca]

HI Anna,

I'd say a combination of both might be good. I'm low-vision and just had
large print exams with extended time. However, I think the tactile drawing
might be faster for in-class,especially for pushing electrons, but the
model kits are especially helpful. Yu could do like Ashley and have
multiple kits so that the molecules could be built faster, especially if
you also had technical assistants.

Would it be possible for you to get lectures ahead of time? My professors
often had the lectures already prepared and knew which mechanisms or
reactions they would go over. That way, you and a technical assistant could
get things together ahead of time so you could focus more during the
lecture. Come to think of it, the same could go well for tests.

Stephanie H. DeLuca, Ph.D.
stephanie.h.deluca at gmail.com
256.810.2138

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
    ~Louis Pasteur, lecture 1854

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Ashley Neybert via Nfb-science <
nfb-science at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hey Anna,
>
> I hope you've gotten a reply before now but just in case here we go as
> I've had some issues accessing this email lately. What I often did was use
> a model kit. This included during quizzes and tests. I ended up using
> multiple modeling kits. My teacher was willing to make models of the
> questions that had diagrams ahead of time and mark them as to which
> question they went too and as you can imagine if the test got long this
> often meant I needed o give my teacher several modeling kits ahead of time
> or to have one kit and do the exam in the teacher's office so that whenever
> I finished one model I'd give it back and they'd start building the next
> one. I also had my own modeling kit for questions where there was no
> pre-made model and I was in charge of coming up with what something was.
> Sometimes I used this and other times I just had to have a great
> imagination. I wish you luck and hope you find something, not going to lie
> Organic 1 and 2 were always my least favorite due to that they're so visual
> along with that frankly most of the things in lab smell awful. This one is
> often difficult but from what I've seen you have the resiliency to make it!
>
>
> Ashley Neybert
>
> ACS National Chemists with Disabilities Committee Member
>
> NFB of Kansas Student Division Secretary
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> Has anyone taken organic chemistry?  I am in first semester organic
> chemistry this fall and I was thinking I could use a model kit since there
> are a lot of structures to be described or drawn.  But after talking  to my
> professor and looking over some of the practice exams, I, and my professor,
> feel like it would take too long to build all the structures for am exam or
> quiz or for someone to do that in class while he's drawing on the board.
> So while I plan to use a model kit in tutoring or my own studies, I am not
> sure it's practical for in class or times assignments like quizzes.
> So my other thought was to use a tactile drawing board.  But then my
> question is do you think that would be big enough to draw a complex
> structure and still be able to feel and distinguish all the little details
> within the structure. That is my concern with this method because of course
> visually looking at a drawing is quite different than feeling it.
> If anyone has any experience or thoughts about this, I would love to hear.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Anna E Givens
>
>
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