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----- Original Message -----
From: "Saaqib Mahmuud" <saaqib1...@yahoo.co.in>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 10:41 PM
Subject: [Bulk] [AI] To introduce myself to the AccessIndia community
Hello to everyone here at the Access India forum.
I'm a visually impaired person with an MPhil in mathematics, and I've been
teaching mathematics as a lecturer at a mainstream college in the
provincial government's department of higher education department. I've
also been a member of the RNIB from 2004 to 2006.
I've also been a Hadley School for the Blind student since Nov. 2004 and
have so far completed courses in English, the Nemeth Code, word
processing, the Internet basics; nowadays I'm pursuing a course on the
Unified English Braille (UEB) and chess!
Though I know braille and am familiar with JAWS and MAGic, in my teaching
of mathematics [ I've been for the last few years teaching analysis and
functional analysis to the BS in Mathematics students.] I mostly rely on
my residual vision: I'm able to read the inkprint and write using my
eyesight, though from a distance of hardly six inches and that too not in
the sunlight!
My schooling started at a local school for sighted children in 1986, where
I stayed for less than a year before being admitted to my local school for
the blind in 1987, and I stayed at that school till 1994, when I passed my
matriculation examination and joined college [It was the same college
where I'm teaching now.] Even during my studies at that school for the
blind, I remained in touch with the inkprint reading and writing (entirely
on my own!) and so was able to start college without having to use braille
or audio.
At college, I opted for mathematics, statistics, and economics as my
intermediate-level subject combination, but our mathematics education at
the school for the blind was extremely poor! My eyesight problem and poor
financial family background [My father worked as a truck driver.] meant
that I had to mostly do without any tutorial support; the result was that
in my Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) I could manage to score
only 62%.
Although I kept myself in touch with inkprint right through my blind
school years, my handwriting was still too slow and child-like even when I
joined college, resulting in my compulsion to rely on a sighted person to
write my exam papers for me, which is a not-so-easy task in mathematical
subjects.
I had to engage a sighted person as a writer in my HSSC, 2-year B.Sc., and
2-year M.Sc. exams. It was only in my MPhil coursework that I could muster
enough confidence in my handwriting to write my own exam papers. The
difference was that, unlike my previous board and university examinations
which had all been under an annual system and marked externally, the MPhil
papers were set and marked by the very instructor who was teaching the
course.
I also started learning JAWS scripting back in 2005 but then couldn't hold
on to it due to one reason or the other. Nowadays, I'm learning the Python
programming language from a video course taught by a Prof. John Guttag
back in 2011 and now available at the MIT Open CourseWare (OCW) website.
Although I did study one semester of M.Sc. in Computer Science back in
1999, I would still rate my computer experties at the beginner's level (or
thereabouts). I feel that I started on so many things without being to
stick to anything in particular.
I post my question to a webstie called Stack Exchange, particularly on the
Mathematics Stack Exchange. Here's the link to my MSE profile.
http://math.stackexchange.com/users/59734/saaqib-mahmuud
I occasionally post on Facebook as well and have liked the NDTV Facebook
page, as well as that of Burkha Dutt. BBC Urdu and Hindi are both my
favorites (perhaps the latter more than the former); I also would like to
be able to access Doordarshan Urdu.
I've also been a reader of the Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind from
Aug. 2001 till Nov. 2009, when they stopped their braille edition.
Due to my rather limited Internet bandwidth, the live video streaming is
often not good enough; so I wish that NDTV 24 7, NDTV India, and
Doordarshan each could also start a live audio stream, just like the live
audio streams of Dunya News TV, a Pakistani channel. Would anyone here
also like to concur with me on this point?
I think I've introduced myself quite thoroughly (a little too thoroughly,
I'm afraid). Anyway, should anybody like to get in touch with me, here's
my contact information.
Mobile Phone Number: 0092-346-952-7638
Number for WhatsApp: 0092-334-541-7958
E-mail: saaqib1...@yahoo.co.in
I can also give out my postal (or geographical) address, should anybody
want it.
I would be glad to socialise with members of the Access India mailing list
community and be helpful in whatever way I can.
Regards.
Sincerely,
Saaqib
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