[nabs-l] Disability Services and Math

Thu Feb 7 03:14:10 UTC 2013

Hi Kaiti,
Does your DS office give you Braille for other classes? Is the quality
better for those classes? If so, who's doing the Brailling?
I totally agree that you should not have to proofread your homework,
and you should definitely complain to someone higher up in DS about
this. If the situation isn't resolved, you could also explore the
option of doing the homework electronically and asking your prof to
send you descriptions of graphs. Email me off-list if you want more
advice about how to do stats electronically as I have done it several
times.
Oh, and if you're a psych major stats is required.
Arielle

On 2/6/13, Nimer M. Jaber, IC³ <nimerjaber1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kaiti,
>
> first, I don't think that stats is required for your major. Second, if
> it is, then the university needs to accommodate you much better than
> they are, and they need to terminate the position of the idiot they
> hired and hire another. I know the person or rather of the person that
> you're talking about because I was supposed to come and train her if
> Clovernook would've done their job. Unfortunately she wasn't prepared
> for the position that she got, and even if she was it's not the IT
> specialist's job to proofread math, so it seems like the University
> either needs to get their act together and hire someone that knows how
> to do it, or they need to have it professionally done. Either way, the
> statusquo is not acceptable.
>
> Please let me know what happens, as I am very interested to see how
> they and you choose to handle this. And if you need/want help from a
> tech specialist, please don't hesitate to call me and I will do what I
> can to help you. Just respond to my email if you want contact info.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On 2/6/13, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This semester I am enrolled in a 200 level stats course necessary for
>> my major.  Recently I've been having problems with my disability
>> services and the braille material they have been producing for my math
>> homework.  The course only meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays so the
>> professor has to move pretty fast through the material.  To try and
>> help me stay on top of the work as far as getting me the braille to do
>> it goes the office has a woman who they've hired as the assistive
>> technology specialist brailling all my math materials with the Tiger
>> and my professor has given her access to our Sakai sight so she can
>> just go get the material and not have to wait for me to find what it
>> is, email it to her, and then have her check her email on a break.
>> The ideas are great, but the quality of the braille just isn't there.
>> Sometimes graphs will be missing from questions, the embosser will
>> mess up several lines of braille and make the question unreadable, or
>> other times entire questions will be missing from my braille packets.
>> Contributing to the issue is that with my schedule I'm physically not
>> able to get to the learning center two days a week due to my classes.
>> This often means on the days I have stats and the entire morning free
>> beforehand I often have to go to the ds office only several hours to
>> pick up materials if they weren't readable the first time and then
>> hurry to fix my old answers or do them in the first place before the
>> start of the class.
>>
>> I feel really frustrated that I have to proofread like this.  Of
>> course I don't expect everything to be perfect, but at the same time I
>> don't think I should have to go down to the ds office to tell the
>> braillist she missed a problem or that I can't read the graph because
>> she printed it so small that the lines are too close together to read
>> several times a week.  She is blind herself and a braille reader, so I
>> wonder why there is no proofreading involved in the process.  And
>> although I realize that she has other responsibilities, I know I'm the
>> only student who receives braille material so I don't see how
>> proofreading a few pages of braille would take much time.  I don't
>> feel like with all my classes I'm doing that I should also have to
>> worry if I can even do my homework for them.
>>
>> If anyone has any suggestions on how to handle this I would appreciate
>> hearing them.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kaiti
>>
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