Sentences with phrase «many blind students»

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

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.»

Most blind students solve math by touch.

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

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

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.

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.

Section 31 also stipulates that al1 educational institutions shall provide amanuensis (scribes) to blind students and students with low vision.

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).

Helping Blind Students «See» the Stars Benning L. (Ben) Wentworth III, a science teacher at the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind, was named Disney American Teacher Awards 2001 Outstanding Teacher of the Year for his innovative ways of teaching science to visually impaired students.

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

Blind students are taking Astronomy fully online.

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

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

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.

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

Blind students will have access to a talking or Braille calculator.

To the extent he or she can do so, a blind student should learn everything possible about the technologies and sources of content that are being used by his or her preferred institution and talk with its office for disabled students to learn about the institution's accommodation policies and procedures.

Whether it be advocating for state funding for deaf and blind students, expanding career and technical education opportunities for these students, or working to expand teacher preparation programs and licensure programs for educators who teach in the deaf and blind communities, Matthews has maintained her commitment to ensuring an equitable education for all of Kentucky's children.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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

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.»

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.

(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.

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.

«That is segregating the blind students, using a «separate but equal» philosophy that we don't accept.»

>> 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...

Other ereader devices, including Apple products, provide tools that blind students can use for these functions, according to Danielsen.

The organizations argue that Kindle e-readers and ebooks are inaccessible to blind students and are thus prohibited from use in public schools by federal law.

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

Attorneys for Aleeha Dudley have reached an agreement with Miami University after the school failed to provide Ms. Dudley with equal and meaningful access to her curriculum to help her attain educational success as a blind student studying zoology.

Several years ago, I was teaching a blind student how to use LexisNexis.

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.

This Braille teacher resume format is in MS word which features the requirements for teaching blind students.

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

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

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

«The Dean asked me to put the room numbers up in Braille so the blind students can find their classrooms.»

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

Not exact matches

The Social Security Administration allows blind or disabled students to earn a certain amount of income without it impinging upon their SSI benefits.