[Nfbc-info] Question Regarding Possible Trade School OfInterest, Heald College

[Chela Robles]

Oh well I really don't want to go back to DVC. How about Western
Career College, actually now it is called Carington College think it
is in Pleasant Hill or Walnut Creek.

On 2/1/12, ckrugman at sbcglobal.net <ckrugman at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> we have one in Fresno and I am not aware of any blind students attending.
> You would probably do better going to a community college where you can pay
> much less money andreceive services. Many of the private vocational schools
> fall short when it comes to delivering job placement for their grads.
> Chuck
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Elder" <tim at timeldermusic.com>
> To: "'NFB of California List'" <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfbc-info] Question Regarding Possible Trade School
> OfInterest, Heald College
>
>
>> Hello Chela,
>>
>> I have noticed that a few trade schools like the one you describe
>> sometimes
>> fail to properly accommodate disabled students.  They are often
>> corporations
>> with bottom lines and a profit incentive to minimize the amount of money
>> spent on each student.  This can provide a very different environment from
>> the public or nonprofit private universities.  They should have the
>> financial resources to provide you a wonderful education and the law
>> requires they do so.  Please let me know if you have difficulties.  I've
>> helped students at similar institutions who paid extremely large amounts
>> of
>> tuition for very inaccessible vocational training.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Timothy Elder
>> TRE Legal Practice, LLC
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfbc-info-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbc-info-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>> On
>> Behalf Of Chela Robles
>> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 8:36 PM
>> To: NFB of California List
>> Subject: [Nfbc-info] Question Regarding Possible Trade School Of Interest,
>> Heald College
>>
>> Hello all I was just wondering if any of you have heard of Heald
>> College and was also wondering if any blind people have gone to this
>> trade school? If so, are there accessibility programs I should know
>> about as far as their technology field since I'm interested in their
>> computer courses and if there is a Disabled Students Program like at
>> Diablo Valley College and Los Medanos College here in California? I'm
>> from Concord, California, and found a Heald College nearby actually in
>> the same city. If any blind people have taken courses and graduated
>> successfully from any Heald College, can you tell me about your
>> experience there because I'm looking into this as a ticket to getting
>> me a career in the computer field like say office administrative stuff
>> for say Fidelity Home Warranty, and was wondering if they have a
>> career services section because my experience with DVC didn't go well,
>> not many career choices were given to me.
>> Chela
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>> of
>> the performances."-Trumpeter Chris Botti
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"To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you
forever. It's one thing to be melancholy and one thing to be sophisticated,
but when you get the two of them together in a way people can relate to,
then I think you're on to something. You want the sophistication to lie in
the purity of the sound, the beauty of the arrangements, and the quality of
the performances."-Trumpeter Chris Botti
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Chela Robles
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I volunteer for a non-profit organization called Bookshare, to learn more
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