[blindkid] High School

[cconley at fuse.net]

Kyle took his gym and health in the summer. One year he went to a local gym and worked out for ten weeks and got credit for gym. Kyle is now finishing up his second year of college majoring in music education.
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Bonnie Lucas" <lucas.bonnie at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 22:14:24 
To: NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,\(for parents of blind children\)<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blindkid] High School

Thanks for this valuable information. I would like to know what those who 
have children in music, who want to stay in music classes, do. Aubrie would 
never give up any music classes though technology is important. It's as if 
any of the extra things she has to do, such as mobility and solving 
technology issues will need to be done after school. We may take a look at 
the e-high school and see if there are a couple of those pud classes, health 
and P.E. that she could take in the summer and then she'd have time for help 
with math and technology. The other elective that she has, and would never 
give up, is Spanish.
Thanks again for the information.
Bonnie
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From: <EMMOL at aol.com>
To: <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:41 AM
Subject: [blindkid] High School


> Hi,
> Realized I had saved the questions regarding blind high school students 
> for
> a less busy time. Not sure when that is. So, I apologize for the delay in
> responding. Patrick is a junior preparing for college. Our recent time 
> and
> focus relates to our many college visits on the weekends. Also  time
> devoted to the SAT.
> So...things that we have found to work:
> *Key the locker rather than the standard combination lock. Add his
> combination lock to the gym locker. A locker on the end of a row helps.
>
> *O&M always after school, once a week. It has interfered with certain
> after school activities and we try and work the schedule around that. We 
> have
> switched the day different years depending on his activity schedule. It is
> his  responsibility to let her know ahead of time if he will be running 
> late
> due to a  mandatory meeting, which happens in high school. Urban travel is
> scheduled for  teacher in-service days.The O&M would prefer that he misses 
> a
> Friday once a  month for this. We feel that the missed class work, trying 
> to
> make up work  and/or tests is too much to ask.
>
> *Identify one librarian (there are several in our high school) who is
> familiar with Patrick's equipment so that if he needs assistance when
> researching or scanning etc. someone is knowledgeable. He's generally 
> independent,
> but it's good to have a "go to person" as the vision teacher is  only in
> district for part of the day.
>
> *Vision Teacher is in the building, daily. In ninth grade they met after
> school. In tenth & eleventh grade one period a day for technology. 
> (Patrick
> gave up choir and they eliminated health from his schedule.) Technology
> time can be "soft" such as previewing materials for geometry or more
> sophisticated such as programs used in chemistry, an internet/jaws glitch, 
> scanning,
> power point assistance, to name a few.
>
> She is available to push in to math if needed. Usually at the beginning of
> the year, not needed now. Some years more challenging, such as with
> geometry.
>
> She also has consult time in her schedule to meet with teachers. Much
> information gathering is done via email for assignments etc, but it is 
> important
> that she is in the building and available for questions.She oversees his
> technology in the building. She oversees the ordering of books, etc. but 
> we
> added that as a goal for Patrick to begin in 10th grade. Contacting next
> years  teachers, getting book lists and ordering materials, to assist with 
> the
> transition to college. We also find that the early contact gets teachers
> thinking and they have their questions ready. They also see Patrick  as
> responsible for his program and feel more comfortable directing  questions 
> to
> him.
>
> Sorry for the length of this. I could go on. There are many little things
> that help to make it work. Patrick actually did a power point on this 
> topic.
> (Maybe next year's convention...) I would be happy to answer specific
> questions  as I only touched on many things and didn't get into other 
> things. We
> are  preparing for his final IEP meeting. Hard to believe!
> Eileen
>
> 


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