Sentences with phrase «of blind students»

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.

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).

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

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.

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.

During her second year teaching, she met her Redneck Romeo through a blind date arranged by one of her students.

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

As he glanced about the room straining to catch the expressions on his students» faces, they recognized a scholar who was almost blind from long hours of study.

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.

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.

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.»

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.»

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.

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.

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 students.

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.

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 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.

I was set up on a blind date with my now - husband through one of my yoga students.

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.

A double - blind, placebo - controlled pilot study of the stimulatingand adaptogenic effect of Rhodiola rosea SHR - 5 extract on the fatigue of students caused by stress during an examination periodwith a repeated low - dose regimen.

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.

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.

When I taught high school English, I always hoped that anticipation guides would reveal some of my students» «blind spots» (academic, social, and emotional) and help preempt those teachable moments.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Students also explore the fable of the blind men and the elephant to consider why there are differing interpretations of God.

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.

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.

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

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