[nabs-l] math and science resources

[bookwormahb at earthlink.net]

Hi all,

I’m doing some advocacy for resources to benefit blind and Visually impaired students, vi, at the community college campus.
They do have some models for biology.  But blind students are at a disadvantage in not seeing the visuals in lectures.
The college provides scribes who will sit with you and describe/read things already and take notes;
you don’t have to have one; but its there if needed.
So I suppose they could describe the specimens and things seen in labs.  But I’m wondering what they can do for equal access?
Readers need to be qualified for one thing to read tests; they need to know how to pronounce names of things.

What else?
My questions are:
1. What accomodations did you get in these classes?
2. What resources should a college have to provide access?
I am thinking matterials to  make tactile drawings.
APH has an atonomy book that may be of us as well.
Are there already tactile graphics out there that one can print on an embosser?
If there is a list of science resources I can give them let me know.

Thanks.
Ashley