[blindkid] blindness & University

[melissa Green]

I don't use the dss office, unless I have to or need something from them.
I have a friend that a professor told her that she needed an accommodations
letter from the DsS office.  She also told her that she needed to get used to
asking for this kind of letter because employers would want it.  I told my
friend that this  professor was full of it.


Best regards,
Sincerely,
Melissa R. Green
Hold on to your dream and it shall be well with you.

-----Original Message-----
From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Jan Wright
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 3:10 PM
To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindkid] blindness & University

    
Mike wrote:
Actually, I think you had the better deal arranging your own accmmodations. I
did also as when I went to college forty years ago, no had even thought about
DSS offices and people assumed (rightly, in my view) that it was up to me to
arrange for the help I needed. That's the way things still should be in my
view sinc" all the accommodations blind students routinely receive these days
are virtually nonexistent in the world outside of academia.

Mike, in some instances, I did.
I knew what worked and what did not.
I had to assess my own needs and tell the  professor  what I needed.
I had to speak up in class when I did not understand something.
At first, it made me quite uncomfortable.
But, speaking up or not, I was always the "blind student."
And, after I spoke up a bit, some knew that I was intelligent and they might ask
such things as:
"Jan, how should we word this?"
or:
"Is there something that we are missing, you think of all of the angles."
The problem came when some professors found it a chore to comply with the
accommodations.
Before my Junior year, I was convinced/persuaded to go to Indianapolis to finish
my degree.
(larger city/more blind people).
 Granted, professors were not so "shell shocked" but yes, you are right, there
were other bureaucratic  issues to deal with.




"Bonds of the Heart should never be broken!"
"Dil kay rishton kay bandhan kabhi naheen tootnay chahiay hain!" -- Urdu
translation
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