[nabs-l] the test accomodations

[Helga]

Hi Ashley, this is Helga. I know what you mean when you don't receive the 
help you need for testing. I'm also in my finals right now as well. In order 
for me to do my tests my disability adviser's assistant read me and scribe 
the test for me. She was very competent in reading, but sometimes I ask her 
if she could repeat the questions again, and she did it. The reason I did 
that is because my first Language is not English even though I speak it. 
Math was one of the hardest test to do with a scribe because sometimes it 
took me a while to tell her where to write the numbers in the test. I'm 
actually blind and I use JAWS, but I didn't really use it for testing yet. 
By the way, how does it work? Have you talk to your professors about this? 
Also, I just wanted to tell you that for this semester my professors are the 
ones who read and write the answers of the questions of the tests for me. By 
the way, what classes are you taking right now that you are require to take 
finals exams? I'm just wondering. By the way, do you have any contact number 
where I can contact you in order to answer your questions in more detail, or 
email address? Thank you so much. God bless!!

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ashley Bramlett
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 1:21 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: [nabs-l] the test accomodations

Hi all,

As finals approach, I wanted to know what test accomodations you get. Do you 
feel they are adaquate and meet your needs?
If you need a reader and person to scribe your answers on a scantron, how 
are they? Are they competent readers?

I’m going through a discriminatory situation now. Most my readers were 
incompetent but I got around that by asking them to speak slower and repeat 
things; I mean they could not speak all that clearly and read fast and spoke 
to the paper not articulately to me. Many exams I took with jaws to avoid 
this; I feel this way is slower for me and a reader can directly mark my 
answers on a scantron as well as go back to questions I missed. If I need a 
reader scribe I should be given a competent reader.

I’ll tell more about this specific test issue in another message.

Look forward to seeing your responses.

Ashley
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