[blindkid] If Math was never taught, can 22 yr old stay one extra year?

Mon Sep 11 13:09:43 UTC 2017

Tina,

Robert raised a great question.

Here are options and I am sure you need to contact a lawyer on the
following if you want your child educated= compensatory services

First, WHY was he never taught math skills or nemeth? My guess is if he
does not know this area, he does not know many others. Back to the IDEA law

When a child is not educated in all areas like all other children you can
have the school--through a lawyer--ask for compensatory services which
basically means--yes, you need to go to due process and the school ends up
paying for after graduation services to fill in those gaps that he never
got in his k-12 education.

 It would be very important to find a qualified person to teach him needed
skills and back to the---how many other areas of education did he not get.
Many goals are written to the skill level of the TVI to teach versus "what
the child needs." No, it is not supposed to be that way but TVIs are not
going to write goals they cannot teach. That is true for all people BTW not
just TVIs

Blindness skills are so specialized and it takes a lot of education on the
TVIs part to learn the skills. If they do not have them, then it is very
important that parents FIND someone who is to add to their child's
education. TVIs typically have great skills--but not all so once again
parents need to be aware of this then you find a qualified person.

I know--WOW, you are thinking--isn't this the schools job. Schools do not
know. They do not know what a qualified TVI really is because it is so
specialized. When they hire a TVI they believe that this person has all the
skills so they will not know what to look for--you will, so start looking.

But at this age--the way to get services is either compensatory thru a
lawyer taking u thru due process for this time or DVR after school but you
won't get daily instruction thru DVR typically. If your child needs lots of
skills--compensatory is the way to go.

Many suits on this that have gone thru on this so your child gets that
specialized instruction after graduation.

Blessings going forward

*Dr Denise M Robinson*

Denise M Robinson, TVI, PhD

Specialist-Technology/Blind Skills | Teacher of the Blind and Visually
Impaired
425-220-6935 | www.yourtechvision.com

“Helping the visually impaired see their world changed through technology”

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 10:56 PM, rjaquiss via blindkid <blindkid at nfbnet.org
> wrote:

> Hello Tina:
>
>      If your son has no math skills, he has a much bigger problem than not
> knowing Nemeth. I would think he would need a math tutor and someone to
> help
> learn Nemeth braille. Did he also miss out on science? An Associates degree
> will likely require the taking of a science course. The college will expect
> that students have had two years of high school science. Perhaps your
> community college has some GED prep courses that can fill in the gaps. Hope
> this helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindkid [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tina Egle
> via blindkid
> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2017 3:11 PM
> To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Tina Egle
> Subject: [blindkid] If Math was never taught, can 22 yr old stay one extra
> year?
>
> Hello Dr. Robinson,
>
> My 21 year old totally blind son is in high school but as soon as he turns
> 22 on Dec 13, he will be out of high school system. He is currently going
> to
> out of district vision program but they never taught him Nameth code, no
> math skills. In order for him to even get an associate degree from College,
> he needs basic Math and all college admission require placement test for
> English reading, writing and Math so how is he going to College with no
> basic knowledge of Math?
>
> Can we ask for extension? Is it possible?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Tina Egle Mother of Justin
>
> cell 847/577-7500
>
>
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