Sentences with phrase «blind students at»

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.

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The first - year reading program at Williams College, «turned out to be kind of like a bad blind date,» wrote Michaela Morton, a freshman at the time, in an article in the student newspaper.

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

At the Deductive Tasting Method Workshop, students hone their analytical blind tasting skills through a series of small group tastings and lectures.

One of them, Charles Boswell, blinded in the war, recalls that the campus at the University of Alabama was particularly attractive that fall, with its white - columned houses and the famous Gorgas Oak that was a favorite meeting place for students, a part of the campus spared when the Yankees burned Tuscaloosa 74 years before.

The Hadley School for the Blind of Winnetka has received a prototype «beeping» basketball created by students at the Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology in Terra Haute, Ind..

The Post's interviews with parents and staffers at JHS / MS 80, as well as public documents, painted a picture of a school where students are allowed to shirk their studies, hurt each other and play on computers in rat - infested buildings, while administrators turned a blind eye and even discouraged staffers from reporting violence.

At 8:30 a.m., educators representing 11 state - supported schools serving deaf, blind and severely physically disabled students will kick off their lobby day, where they'll ask lawmakers to treat the students equally and increase state funding by 4.8 percent — the same percentage increase Cuomo has recommended for public school districts in his proposed 2015 - 16 executive budget, 3rd Floor Terrace, Legislative Office Building, Albany.

This blind rage may generate headlines for adults looking to settle political scores, but it comes at the expense of students.

Last month, the joint team was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $ 591,622 for a 2 - year research project involving 300 students, with and without disabilities, at seven institutions, including three colleges for the blind.

As another way to avoid the trade - off between race - blind policies and student diversity, some have suggested race - neutral «class - based» admission policies — targeted at low - income and disadvantaged youth (9 - 11).

Eight decades after Nemeth's college days, the University World News reports that Argyris Koumtzis, a top student and winner of math and physics prizes who is blind, was at first denied admittance into the physics program at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

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

At a University of Wisconsin lab, occupational therapist Kathi Kamm, right, tests graduate student Carla Becker's ability to «see» while blind - folded.

The Higher Education Research Institute reports that 40 % of incoming first - year students in the fall of 2004 come from families making more than $ 100,000, despite «need - blind» admissions policies at the 42 most selective state universities.8

Michelle Montopoli, an NAU alumna and student at the time of the study, led the EEG testing phase which included measuring serving sizes of the samples based on participant weight and packaging them so the participants were blind to what they were tasting.

When I was a college student in California, I prized my weekend trips to the desert city as an opportunity to, well, do it up «Vegas - style,» taking the city up on the debauchery waiting at every corner: swilling far too many cocktails, eating gourmet fried Twinkies and tater tot nachos, and pulling the blackout blinds in my hotel room to keep up my vampiric hours.

Additionally, the dynamics between Lee and Wong is observed on the sidelines by a Caucasian martial arts student named Steve McKee (Billy Magnussen, «Bridge of Spies») whose devotion to the sparring 24 - year old instructor is only hampered by his blinding attraction to a vulnerable Chinatown waitress (Qu Jingjing) at the mercy of her seedy employer (Xing Jin) looking for payback.

Sally Carson, who also teaches third grade at Bacich and whose class includes the visually impaired student, says her students» work with Braille fostered an «awareness of how difficult it must be to be blind.

At Bacich, teachers Della Valle - Hake and Sally Carson say their students had been fascinated by Louis Braille's biography and the fact that he invented the reading system for the blind when he was fifteen years old.

At the Colorado School forthe Deaf and Blind, in ColoradoSprings, Little Shop membersfound deaf students so enamoredwith Voice - o - Vision — an adaptedblack - and - white TV that graphicallydisplays sound waves createdby speaking into a microphone — thatthey later returned to help those studentsbuild Voice - o - Visions of their own.

Without valid information on the performance of students at each school relative to that of their peers across the country, the entire education enterprise flies blind, leaving parents, teachers, school managers, and policymakers with nothing more than intuition and consensus as the basis for making decisions.

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School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.

At least 50 per cent of colour - blind students are estimated to be undiagnosed by the time they sit their GCSEs.

Student Voice Team member Cheyenne Osuala, a senior at Fern Creek High School in Louisville, meets with a student at Kentucky School for the Blind in LouiStudent Voice Team member Cheyenne Osuala, a senior at Fern Creek High School in Louisville, meets with a student at Kentucky School for the Blind in Louistudent at Kentucky School for the Blind in Louisville.

For example, the Washington Supreme Court has barred a blind student from using vocational rehabilitation funds to pursue seminary studies [xxxii]; forbidden a program that provided textbook and tuition assistance grants for needy students at public and private, including religious, schools [xxxiii]; and struck down a program that allowed students from private, including religious, schools to ride public school buses.

Board members also voted at the meeting to amend the attendance policies for the state - run Kentucky School for the Blind and the Kentucky School for the Deaf to require students to attend school between the ages of 6 and 18 to align with Senate Bill 97.

This got Amazon in trouble with the Department of Justice, which worried that the Kindle wasn't fully accessible to blind students who might want to use the Kindle at a university.

I predict an increase in suicides specifically related to millennia's inability to live up to a meaningful existence because we are plagued with insurmountable debt of student loans; we can not escape because the cloak of debts burden blinds us from the perseverance needed to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

As a college student working at a veterinary hospital, I met and fell in love with a blind Tabby cat named Mr. Magoo.

«Service dogs have to learn that even though a person who is blind told them to go through a door, they should not go if there is a hazard that could injure their owner,» said Dr. Alice Blue - McLendon, clinical assistant professor and faculty advisor for the Aggie Guide Dogs and Service Dogs (AGS) student group at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.

The young artist is also steadfast in her support of charitable organizations, among them Avalon, New Jersey's Helen L. Diller Vacation Home for Blind Children; last night saw de Forest take part in a special painting session at the Ocean Galleries, where she worked together with students to create a piece of artwork to be donated to the Diller Home.

After a stop at Casa Barragán for the opening of a photo exhibition by the collaborating duo Lake Verea, and a detour through architect Maurizio Rochas's remarkable library for the blind, I arrived in time to catch Kickstarter's Perry Chen in conversation with José Luis Martinez Limôn, an information media student from Monterrey, Mexico.

As a blind student writing this test I was appalled at the lack of acceptable study material available.

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

In our training process we focus on the development of good habits in our students such as signaling at all times, looking at the» blind spot» when leaving the curb or when changing lanes as well as being aware of potential hazards on the road, key elements of defensive driving skills.

Some of her fieldwork experience has involved parent - coaching, reunification of at - risk families, early intervention for blind children, Applied Behavior Analysis with children and adolescents with developmental delays / disorders, and as an academic clinician for students with learning disabilities in public schools.

Student questionnaires for the pre-test (at the beginning of Grade 6), post-test 1 (at the end of Grade 6), and post-test 2 (at the end of Grade 7) were administered in class time by trained research assistants blind to group allocation.

As I watched Ken work, I thought of some of the blind students I knew there at Georgia State University.