[Nfb-science] Accessible Lab

Tue Feb 3 17:31:31 UTC 2009

Dear Blind Collegian,

Getting a sighted lab partner, who can really describe structures and 
details to you would be very helpful and obtaining tactile drawings would 
also be very helpful.
Also talk to your instructor so they understand what you need in being able 
to get the most out of the class and so they can make any modifications to 
the way they conduct test and quizzes.  If it is all based on what you can 
"see", then they need to figure out just how to present it so that you can 
get the info from it you need to understand what is being presented and how 
to recognize it and identify it.

Work with the instructor and both you, the instructor and maybe even other 
class members will gain from how the info is presented.
You are paying for this education, so you should be getting everything you 
paid for.

Talk to the office of Students With Disabilities and they maybe able to work 
with you also.
Remember, Under the ADA, all entities doing business or offering services to 
the Public and receiving federal funds, as most colleges and universities 
do, must comply with the accommodations of the ADA or face loss of those 
funds.
Be flexible, but don't be bullied either.  Your education is just as 
important as any other student.
There are places where you can get tactile models of many kinds of things, 
biological, electrical, electronic, chemical and structural.  If the 
Jernigan Institute doesn't have some leads, keep asking on the list.  Your 
most valuable resource are other informed Blind people.

David Evans, NFBF
Nuclear/Aerospace Materials Engineer
Builder of the Lunar Rovers and the F-117 Stealth Fighter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <j8miller at soe.ucsd.edu>
To: "NFB Science and Engineering Division List" <nfb-science at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 1:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-science] Accessible Lab

> Hello,
> I strongly recommend bringing a sighted assistant to the lab with you if
> this is a college course.  In highschool, I often paired off with
> another student and took notes for the group
> And asked additional questions of team members after the lab to complete
> missed descriptions.
> For a college lab course, my school arranged for a TA of the class to
> complete the labs with me one-on-one.
> I did the labs in electrical engineering and now I work as an electrical
> engineer, so this method gave me the lab experience I needed to do the
> job.
> Cary Supalo has some lab instruments that can work for a blind person
> particularly well in chemistry.
> Please let us know how it goes in your lab course.
> Very best,
> John
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-science-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:nfb-science-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Blind Collegian
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 9:54 AM
> To: Nfb-science at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Nfb-science] Accessible Lab
>
> Hi,
> I am taking an ecology class and am attending a required lab class. The
> class does not seem to have any accessible measurement and other lab
> tools, so I would like to hear from anyone on this list who might have
> an idea of making lab work accessible.
> What do you do when the teacher asks you to identify and describe the
> structures of bacteria and animal cells? How do blind science students
> get along in lab class? In other words, what techniques do blind science
> students use to deal in situations such as when the lab assignment
> requires the student to identify and explain different types of
> organisms?
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