Category: Cram Session
I'm going to start college next year and I know that everything won't be in braille in high school. How do you guys get your material so that you can be just like the sited students? Do you use scanners or readers? How do you do math without it being in braille?
Get a tutor for math. For everything else you can get books in accessible formats or get them scanned. There's bookshare and RFBD to look at.
Readers are also a valuable tool to learn to use.
Check out "The Care and Feeding of Readers" by Peggy Pinder.
you can find it at www.nfb.org
it gives some good tips on using readers efficiently.
Depends on what you're going into as a major. I took stats in high school so I'd have that out of the way, so I can't help with math.
I use a scanner and e-mail. Any assignments my profs can e-mail me is great, and I scan the rest.
You'll also probably have a disability coordinator at the university, so he can help get work scanned too, but it's really your responsibility.
If you really want it in braille, there's always a braille printer I guess. It's really not as difficult as it seems.
Thanks for the help.
I'd look at it as "How can I get this material an in accessible form as quickly as possible?" Some of your resources, in no particular order, are readers, a scanner, getting material transcribe into Braille, websites such as Bookshare, organizations such as RFB&D, and requesting electronic material from the publisher. Some of these resources have constraints such as needing to deal with an office on your campus in order to contact publishers or needing to get funding (probably through rehab) for transcribing books. Given how quickly you need the material, your preferred method of accessing it, and the difficulty of any constraints, find what works best for you.