[nabs-l] my test accomodation problem

[Kaiti Shelton]

Hi,

That's just odd.  I didn't end up using a reader for stats, but I know
the DS office had someone in mind to hire for my tests if I did need
one.  He was a math major who headed up the math tutoring for my
section of stats, so he would have been familiar with all the material
he would have needed to read on the test.  I feel like for things like
math especially, where there aren't even words that can be spelled out
but symbols, that it is important to have someone who knows what
they're doing, because as a blind student if a reader says there's a
"squiggley thing," or something like that I won't understand what
they're talking about at all, and I think any other student would.

On the other hand, I hope the previously proposed suggestions help.

On 4/28/13, Littlefield, Tyler <tyler at tysdomain.com> wrote:
> Ashley:
> Requesting a reader who knows arabic is pretty far out there. I'm at a
> university and I really highly doubt I could find a reader that knows
> arabic. If you have to, just write a list of the words in braille and
> take it in. Then they can spell it out (or if it's a matching deal, you
> could get the matching terms from the prof in a braille form ahead of
> time--on a note taker or sit down and braille it out).
>
> As for the math stuff, that is a bit rough and something I'd fight. I
> feel like your expectations are to high on one end and you should
> actually be getting accomidations on the other.
> Good luck,
> On 4/27/2013 10:45 PM, Ashley Bramlett wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is the problem I alluded to before. Usually I have worked with less
>> than adaquate readers issued by this community college.
>> But this is a different senario. What happened was this. I am taking a
>> world religions final covering the monotheistic religions.
>>
>> Although its an elective I want to do well. We studied Islam and the
>> Baha’I faith among other religions.
>> The professor is nice and farely understanding. In fact, it was she who
>> said it would be challenging to do auditorily and suggested I request a
>> reader competent in Aerabic or who was Muslim. We are testing on some
>> Arabic vocabulary to match with definitions.
>> We also have other parts of the test .
>>
>>
>> I requested a reader from my dss counselor and stated the desired time as
>> well as explained that I need a reader who can pronounce Arabic words. I
>> explained that we have foreign words because its about Islam and the
>> Baha’I faith. Words for the five pillars and their holidays such as Salad,
>> Sawm, Zakat, Ramadan, and Hajj.
>>
>> The DSS counselor responded rather rudely that they do not match  readers
>> based on subject matter competency, that they only base on availability.
>> She said I should know this since I’ve worked with her long enough. I of
>> course do not know this as I’ve never requested this before.
>>
>> I might  take a list of the words we have to match for the test. This
>> would help me know what the words are as the reader spells them out who
>> likely won’t know how to pronounce them. I’ll also ask my professor for
>> suggestions. She’ll likely just advocate with me to dss.
>>
>> I was planning on using the school readers, so at this late point I doubt
>> I can get someone else. They need to provide competent readers. My dss
>> counselor went as far as to say that if a student took a math class, they
>> would not provide someone proficient in math.
>>
>> It is discriminatory for them not to provide a reader who can read
>> adaquately. I kid you not. She really used the math class example. She’d
>> really set someone up to fail by providing a student reader not familiar
>> with math to read a math exam.
>> Email me off list for the counselor’s exact words which I can send
>> privately.
>> Its appalling.
>>
>> The best I can do i s explain the situation to the professor and see what
>> we can work out knowing that I might have an incompetent reader. What I
>> probably do is rely on them spelling the words to me as we match them with
>> definitions.
>>
>> Ashley
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