[nabs-l] Intro and questions

[Zachary N. Griego-Dreicer]

Welcome to the list! I have a few Canadian friends who might be able to help. I will forward them your message.

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On Jan 24, 2013, at 11:03 AM, Ari Damoulakis <aridamoulakis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone
> My name is Ari. I'm a totally blind student from South Africa. At the
> moment I'm studying law. I found this list on google when I was
> searching for how to learn Japanese if one is blind.
> My questions are these:
> 1. I would like to study some courses corespondence, possibly online
> from either America or Canada. What American or Canadian colleges or
> institutions are good at helping disabled people do courses through
> corespondence? One important problem or aspect that does bother me is
> if I want to study something they'd have to also somehow be able to
> provide me with the prescribed textbooks and help to do research as I
> know if you guys do research you often use services such as BARD,
> Learning Ally etc, which are not available to me, so somehow they'd
> have to accommodate me being able to research in some other way.
> 2. I know this is an American list, but I'm asking in case someone
> knows. When I finish my degree I'm thinking of doing a conversion
> course and emmigrating to Canada. Does anyone please know of a list or
> chat room where I can chat to blind people or students from Canada
> just to understand what it is like to live and study there, basically
> to learn more about Canadian culture and their way of life, especially
> what it is like to be blind there?
>   Thanks very much
> Ari
> 
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