[Ohio-talk] blindness and minor inconvenience

[Kaiti Shelton via Ohio-talk]

Marianne,

I can assure you that you're not the only one to do this. My TVIs had several issues with textbooks in my k-12 years, probably because of their caseloads and just overlooking details. I didn't even have a textbook for my Spanish III course, and because we were on block scheduling I had that class from August till Christmas break. No one even caught the mistake till my braillist asked to see the form, and the ISBN for the Spanish book wasn't there at all. Murphy's Law had it show up in January when the class was over. Thank goodness my braillist brailler whatever I needed for homework, and I had a great Spanish teacher who was willing to be flexible. 

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> On May 23, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Marianne Denning via Ohio-talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> NFB says blindness is a minor inconvenience.  Today, it was one of
> those for sure and I am very embarrassed.  I hate it when I look
> stupid and blind at the same time and I pulled it off today.  I had
> the ISBN for a textbook and sent it on to be ordered.  I learned that
> I had provided the same ISBN in March but did not know that because
> the school district was going to order new math books so I assumed the
> original number was for the old book.  Then, I didn't check the
> numbers and responded that the previous number was for the old math
> book.  I was wrong but didn't bother to look up the old number.  I
> find the form a little challenging to navigate so didn't even look.  I
> think a sighted person would have checked the 2 numbers to see if they
> were the same.
> 
> I know that was complicated but I wanted to share one of those minor
> inconveniences.
> 
> -- 
> Marianne Denning, TVI, MA
> Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired
> (513) 607-6053
> 
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