Sentences with phrase «blind students in»

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

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.

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 blind student in the District of Columbia strives to learn physics in a regular classroom.

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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.

While dozens of tour buses wait, thousands of pilgrims of every description — the maimed, the blind, the infirm, the elderly, middle - aged American housewives, professionals, students and even a few yuppies in designer jogging suits — walk or crawl up the mountain.

Other tango students would whisper to me if he happened to come in to a soiree or some other tango event, «Michael, you know, is quite blind but he has been coming to tango for many years».

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..

Students often prefer to buy these items rather than eat in overcrowded cafeterias or go off campus, and the fundraisers are so lucrative that some principals not only turn a blind eye to them, they are rarely deterred even when TDA fines the school for a violation.

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.

«I guess Gov. Cuomo's obsession with Mayor de Blasio has blinded him to New York City records in job creation, student test scores and low crime,» Goldstein said.

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

In the 1970s, few women did fieldwork in India, and there was a universal tendency to take a woman's career aspirations lightly — but Davidar says her guide was gender blind and supportive of all his studentIn the 1970s, few women did fieldwork in India, and there was a universal tendency to take a woman's career aspirations lightly — but Davidar says her guide was gender blind and supportive of all his studentin India, and there was a universal tendency to take a woman's career aspirations lightly — but Davidar says her guide was gender blind and supportive of all his students.

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

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.

Another double - blind study in a same style with 17 -19-year students showed the same result.

The NFB has the largest scholarship program for legally blind post-secondary students in the country.

Daniel Ribeiro's coming - of - age story, based on his 2010 short film, follows a blind high school student in Brazil, who is taking his first steps towards both independence and sexuality.

Since the school opened its doors in 1974, a citywide program funded by the New York City Department of Education has been providing resources for Murrow's blind and visually impaired students.

Keep classroom lights on, open blinds, lift shades, and look for ways to get the students into outdoor light, especially in the morning (Kripke, Youngstedt, & Elliot, 1997).

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

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.

Taking into account the low socio - economic level of the blind population in Salta, this project will provide grants to students with economic problems.

Some private institutions, including Harvard, provide very generous need - based financial aid to students who happen to be undocumented, such as Montiel, in what President Drew Faust calls «passport - blind» financial aid.

In writing the book, when we're talking about the issue of disability identify — and Laura has written a chapter about herself — that issue was incidental for some students because they've used a wheelchair all their lives, or they've been blind all their lives, whereas for some of the students for whom that was a struggle, they're highlighted more in that chapteIn writing the book, when we're talking about the issue of disability identify — and Laura has written a chapter about herself — that issue was incidental for some students because they've used a wheelchair all their lives, or they've been blind all their lives, whereas for some of the students for whom that was a struggle, they're highlighted more in that chaptein that chapter.

This report reviews 16 studies conducted in seven states; 103 of 112 comparisons show positive results in writing achievement favoring students in classrooms of NWP participants, based on grading by «blind» coders who did not know whether the author received NWP teaching.

For example, some public schools are incapable of serving blind and deaf students, who constituted 3,022 of the 88,156 privately placed students in 2004.

While students learn the nuts and bolts of conducting research, including ethics, authorship, the art of asking good research questions, software training, the writing of research proposals, and the conducting of blind peer reviews, they work for eight hours a week alongside a faculty member who is running a research project in the community.

Video Description: Just as captioning provides additional text for the hearing impaired, an additional narrative track describing the on - screen action in videos enable blind and low - vision students to participate.

Each of the four schools involved has a blind or visually impaired student in one of its regular - education classes.

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.

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.

Wentworth: Keeping in mind my philosophy of education, what do you do when a student asks, «Why can't blind people have an astronomy class designed for them?»

A basketball coach for the girls» team and a middle - school inclusion assistant, she said that teachers are «color blind» in their relationships with students.

We envisage moderation meetings in which teachers from different schools meet to undertake «blind» re-marking of samples of student work on each of the three school assessment activities.

In fact, some of these provisions plainly betray faulty assumptions, such as clause (f), which assumes an inability on the part of the blind or low vision students to learn mathematics, which is unwarranted since their only limitation is of access and tools.

Other provisions that lend a more credible basis to the view that inclusive education has been promoted in the Act, are provisions such as Section 28 which provides for designing and developing new assistive devices, teaching aids, special teaching materials and other such items necessary to provide «equal opportunities in education'to a child with disability; and clauses (f), (g), (h) of Section 29, which provides for suitable modification in the examination system through elimination of purely mathematical questions for the benefit of blind students and those with low vision (f); restructuring of curriculum for the benefit of children with disabilities (g); restructuring the curriculum for benefit of students with hearing impairment to facilitate them to take only one language as part of their curriculum (h).

Even though Manor New Tech uses a blind lottery system, all students who apply are likely to be more motivated to succeed in school.

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.

Buildings, verandah poles, changes in levels, paths, drainage pits, vents and other surfaces need to be designed and located with extreme care, avoiding blind corners and taking into account that large numbers of students (often running) use the space.

Students Matter's proposed Teacher Employment Policy Pillars make recommendations for commonsense changes to the unconstitutional, quality - blind Education Code provisions that currently govern teacher tenure, dismissal, and layoffs in California.

Given the requisite information, managers have a chance of allocating resources in ways that promote improved student achievement and a more equitable distribution of teaching talent; without such information, they are driving blind.

But «if the state is doing it, we don't want our kids walking in blind,» said another young woman, who suggested that everyone write a few wordy questions for their own students to practice.

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For example, IDEA supported local communities that were developing and implementing early childhood programs; schools serving students with low - incidence disabilities, such as children who are blind or deaf or children with autism or traumatic brain injury; and schools in rural or large urban areas, where financial and other resources are often scarce.