Sentences with phrase «for blind students»

(AP)-- Three universities testing Amazon's Kindle in the classroom have agreed to shelve the electronic book readers until they are fully functional for blind students, under a deal struck Wednesday with the Justice Department.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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our country will be the worse for it as more students face the brainwashing of liberal education's agenda to promote blind acceptance that truth and creed do not exist.

Blind faith is used as a caution By one that knows when teaching the ignorant about such things as fire for example, when the student comprehends feeling heat, they learn without burning themselves.

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 list of entities eligible to spend SMFP money also would be expanded under the new budget to include «special act school districts, schools for the blind and deaf and other students with disabilities subject to article 85 of the education law, and private schools for students with disabilities authorized pursuant to chapter 853 of the laws of 1976.»

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.

For too long, our educational system has been blind to the plight of these students.

The restored funding would benefit schools, including New York City schools, schools for the deaf and blind, and summer schools for special education 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.

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.

For example, a group of students working on developing video games that can be successfully played by blind people visited a local center for the bliFor example, a group of students working on developing video games that can be successfully played by blind people visited a local center for the blifor the blind.

A number of Lisa's students explored video game - based projects, including a team of students that worked on developing a game for the blind.

The following randomized, double - blind study included 419 college students who were randomized to receive 0, 2.5 or 5.0 grams of a galactooligosaccharide prebiotic supplement for eight weeks before, during and after final exams.

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

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.

The plot is too complicated and too delicious to turn into a list here, but it involves Grady's prize student (Tobey Maguire), another female student who rents a room from him and nurses a crush on him (Katie Holmes), the Chancellor's wife with whom Grady is conducting a secret affair (Frances McDormand), Grady's colorful agent (Robert Downey Jr.), another successful writer who turns out a book a year (Rip Torn), and a blind dog with a death wish for Grady.

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.

We did manual blind checks of the grading for the standard and blended students» writing scores to rule out teacher bias.

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).

The academy doesn't handpick incoming students for their prior superstardom; admissions are academic blind.

While 5 percent of students have a learning disability, a staggering 15 percent or more may have unidentified and unaddressed learning and attention issues, leading to a dangerous blind spot for teachers.

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

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 chapter.

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.

Neither the fancy new credential nor the well - rehearsed scriptnecessarily prepare you for the blind date quality of that first meeting with this year's new students.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Boston has had many education - related firsts during its long history, including the country's first public school, the first school for the blind, the first all - female law school, and the first public school for black students.

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.

A well organised Year 5 teacher will have students handing out resources, clearing and cleaning the room, preparing areas for different activities, drawing blinds etc..

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.