Sentences with phrase «blind students»

We do not oppose electronic textbooks; in fact, they hold great promise for blind students if they are accessible.

Though he's not sure how many blind students are at his school, he said many students have difficulties reading texts for various reasons, such as learning disabilities.

Many blind students today rely on MP3 players, audiobooks, and computer software.

How many other countries assume blind students won't make it to college?

«What is unique about this book is that it is taking actual photographs and bringing them to life for blind students,» he says.

For blind students in particular, the Kindle could be an improvement over existing studying techniques - such as using audio books or scanning books page by page into a computer so character - recognition software can translate it for a text - to - speech program.

Peoria Illinois About Blog A Blind student with dissociative identity disorder, borderline personality disorder, major depressive disorder, and PTSD.

With these changes, we strongly believe that the Kindle will become an invaluable tool in the hands of blind students everywhere, and will be equally appreciated by those who want the freedom to purchase and read a good book, no matter where they are.

Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said in a statement that the Federation «commends the University of Wisconsin - Madison and Syracuse University for rejecting broad deployment of the Kindle DX in its current form because it can not be used by blind students and therefore denies the blind equal access to electronic textbooks.

I love learning about the medical profession and as I teach blind students with other health issues, I find myself always striving to help them as best as I possibly can so that they could...

Peoria Illinois About Blog A Blind student with dissociative identity disorder, borderline personality disorder, major depressive disorder, and PTSD.

And because I was in public school and I was one of the first legally blind students in public school, the message I got was, «Don't say anything and you won't get into trouble.»

A non-sighted shadow detection unit was devised so blind students could experience sun shadows and learn about the Earth's rotation, seasons, and time.

Also next spring, blind students who use Braille will have the option to take the test entirely on paper or in an online «fixed form» — a test in which everyone answers the same questions — according to Bill Ainsworth, a California Department of Education spokesman.

«These universities are saying, «Our policy is nondiscrimination, so we're not going to adopt a technology we know for sure discriminates against blind students,»» said Chris Danielsen, a spokesman for the National Federation for the Blind.

Most blind students solve math by touch.

Those disappointments are answered earlier by Juliette Binoche's sad portrayal of a woman who has recently lost her son in Nobuhiro Suwa's «Place des Victoires» (which also features Willem Dafoe as a cowboy who offers her a chance to be with him again) and later by Melchior Beslon's blind student reliving his relationship Natalie Portman's aspiring actress in Tykwer's «Faubourg Saint - Denis.»

Despite that, blind students ask for tuition in ISICANA, demonstrating a concrete demand for the teaching of English.

Michael Turner, the director - general of the Joint Council for Qualifications, told Schools Week that all exam boards «make sure that colour blind students aren't disadvantaged».

Only 3 universities in China will admit blind students (Economist 7/13/13).

As Amazon promotes its e-books to schools, advocates warn that the company has left out technology that allows blind students to navigate the text.

Chris Danielson of the National Federation of the Blind expanded on the situation, telling me that «The National federation of the Blind is taking our concerns about the inaccessibility of kindle ebooks directly to Amazon's doorstep in hopes that the company will quickly rectify the accessibility barriers that prevent blind people, and particularly blind students, from the full use and enjoyment of Kindle ebooks.

But as long as the interface of the Kindle DX is inaccessible to the blind — denying blind students access to electronic textbooks or the advanced features available to read and annotate them — it is our position that no university should consider this device to be a viable e-book solution for its students.»

>> Chris Danielsen said: >> If Amazon makes its technoloogy accessible, >> then all students will be able to use it, including blind students,... >> and If Amazon refuses...

Two blind students at Florida State University filed a discrimination suit against the University for failing to provide them with proper accommodations to successfully complete required math courses.

Brooke is also part of a team representing blind students in their quest for accessible technology at colleges and universities.

for an elementary aged deaf - blind student while also working with student on daily work tasks and achieving IEP goals

I know other deaf / blind students in California who missed part of elementary and middle school because the school refused to provide real materials or they refused to provide interpreters.

The governor, who was one of the first legally blind students to attend public school in his Long Island district, told a story of how he retaliated against one bullying peer by clobbering him with his metal lunchbox.

The Federation for the Blind sued one of the schools that participated in this pilot program - Arizona State University - in June, along with the American Council of the Blind and a blind ASU student, arguing it was discriminating against blind students.

In March, The National Federation of the Blind announced that it is working with Amazon to «increase selection, enhance accessibility, and improve reading experiences for blind students, including those who have low vision or who are deaf - blind.»

Peoria Illinois About Blog A Blind student with dissociative identity disorder, borderline personality disorder, major depressive disorder, and PTSD.

While in seminary, I read much of Calvin to a blind student, and I know how often I flinched at that term.

Moments such as a blind student's tactile impressions of a sea cucumber serve as springboards for ruminations on a natural world far bigger and more complicated than any one person's perception of it.

After being rejected, a blind student wins admission to the physics program at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece

However, their positive, encouraging, and supportive attitudes toward me have well outweighed any practical difficulties,» says a blind student interviewed by the Newcastle group.

Considering the problem described above and the fact that ISICANA already has most of the equipment to implement English classes for blind students, the proposal is:

The Initial Level Course of English as a Second Language for blind students will start in April 2013 on the basis of continuing teaching classes along the years, as a part of ISICANA's permanent academic offer.

Blind students of English in the Salteño Institute of Argentinean - North American Cultural Interchange (ISICANA) in the Salta Province, Argentina, can not translate or understand Braille and other teaching materials.

Abstract: The aim of Project Pathfinder, to be implemented in ISICANA (Salteño Institute of Argentinean - North American Cultural Interchange) is to design an english course in the initial level, with blind teachers (with the help of no blind assistants) for blind students.

Back then, I don't remember a single student with a disability: no deaf students, no blind students, none who used wheelchairs or identified as dyslexic.

How does a blind student use a calculator?

For example, screen readers «adapt» conventional text by converting it into content spoken by a synthetic voice, thereby making standard text accessible to blind students.

Those are just a few of the examples of what I do to make science experiences possible for blind students.

Developing patient education programs for the Army, in addition to having attention deficit disorder (ADD) and a reading disability himself, helped prepare Wentworth for creating educational programs for blind students.