[nabs-l] Seeking Opinions on Blind Research Techniques

[Elizabeth Mohnke]

Hello Justin,

Thank you for taking the time to respond to my message. Can you expand upon this idea? How would I use another person to conduct my research without this person doing my research for me? If I were to use another person for my research, would my research be based on their observations and not mine? I am the one who needs to be conducting the research and not someone else.

Thanks,
Elizabeth

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You could have someone go with you.  It would be aloud as an accommodation.
You could have the professor or disability help you find someone, or you could find your own person. 
You might have to pay them.  Such as paying another college student, or a classmate.
 Justin


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Subject: [nabs-l] Seeking Opinions on Blind Research Techniques

Hello All,

I hope everyone is off to a good start to the beginning of a new semester. I would like to participate in a service learning project for an anthropology class I am taking this semester, and I am wondering if anyone has any tips or advice on conducting participant observational research for social science classes.

The research includes twelve visits observing a first grader during lunch at a local elementary school. We are then asked to propose a specific research topic related to behavior and food, and write a paper based on our observations along with some scholarly resources.

I have never conducted participant observational research before, so I am not completely sure how I would be able to do this as a blind student. Since observing other people includes both visual and non-visual aspects of the environment and the people in it, what would be the best way for me to be able to obtain the visual aspects of the environment and the people in it as a blind student while conducting my research?

Some suggested specific topics for the research paper include food waste, peer pressure related to food choices, socialization during eating periods, physical movement during eating periods, gender differences, influence of authority over food choices, aesthetic presentation of food and its relationship to food choices, and marketing related to food choices.

If anyone knows how I could successfully conduct a participant observational research project as a blind student, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you. However, please note there is also a more traditional research paper assignment for any student who does not wish to complete the service learning project. So this research project is simply an option that I would like to be able to do if I can figure out a way to be able to do it as a blind student.

Thanks,
Elizabeth
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