[nabs-l] campus employment

[Karl Martin Adam]

Hi Ashley, I've had four different campus jobs none of which 
needed more than minimal accommodation.  The school I used to go 
to had and SI (Supplemental Instruction) program where they pay 
students to retake classes and then hold study sessions with 
students after class, so I did that for a few semesters.  I also 
worked as an individual tutor.  The only things I needed help 
with was filling in payroll sheets and having the secretary in 
the office I worked out of date the sheets my students had to 
sign.  I also got the books for the classes I was tutoring and 
SIing for in accessible format from the publisher.  At my new 
school, they hire students already sitting in the class to take 
notes for whoever has trouble taking notes on their own, and 
since I already type my notes on my Apex, I have done that a few 
times as well.  And this summer I had an internship with the 
philosophy department where I read articles and summarized them 
to cut down on the professor's work load and where I also did 
some editing for books and articles that professors are writing.  
I had the DSS office convert some PDFs to DOC for me when they 
wouldn't convert properly with my PDF converter, and I asked 
professors to send me the things they wanted me to edit in DOC 
format, but other than that I didn't need any accommodations.

Hope this gives you some ideas,
Karl

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Ashley Bramlett via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
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Date sent: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:01:41 -0400
Subject: [nabs-l] campus employment

Hi all,
Who has had a campus job? What did you do and what accomodations 
were made?

I’m hoping I can be a computer lab assistant.
Any low vision person done that?
I can probably see inappropriate behavior and I can see a 
community college ID versus something else.

What about other  campus jobs such as serving at the information 
desk, leading tours, or providing reception coverage?
I know most reception jobs where they schedule student 
appointments is done via paper; additionally, you have to check 
student IDS and work with papers. So that job probably cannot be 
adapted.
I think information desk assistant is doable, so I might look 
into that.

My thinking is I might be able to do the lab assistant job 
because I can verbally instruct students what to do. I am not 
sure I can check them in; I can see the community college ID with 
its large letters of its nick name but I cannot tell if the id  
holder matches the person. The way I might be able to tell this 
is by scanning their id and if something pops up on screen, I 
could check that way.

If I cannot work in a computer lab or the writing center lab, 
another idea is working in our assistive tech lab. That should be 
doable.

Thanks for any ideas.

Ashley
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