The Americans with disability act specifies that reasonable accommodations should be provided to the visually challenged persons during written examinations. Such accommodations include extra time (50% or double time), making questions available in preferred formats (brail or large text), availability of computers etc. But remember that unlike India, here the act provides greater flexibility. For example, when I wrote my PhD qualifying exam, I had the scribe and the computer since I didn’t want to concentrate on just typing. Besides extra time, I also gave my scribes some important words like authors, sociological terms etc in advance so that they could familiarize with spelling of those words. This is where India needs to work. Remember that even in America the battle is ongoing since many universities are either unaware of the law or simply don’t care to implement them properly. In fact just last year NFB won a case related to the law exam. And the struggle against administrators in campuses like MIT is a work in progress since students are making their first entry in such places.
Vetri. On 02/08/2011, Amit Bhatt <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear members, > > I am sure that some of our friends of this mailing list are residing > in USA for their studies and jobs. > Some of the media representatives would like to raise the Scribe > policies related matter across India. For that one of the > representatives asked me whether we can also provide them with any > information on the rules and policies framed out for the Scribe to be > used by Visually Challenged during the examination in United States of > America and other Countries. > I am also sure that some of our users do write on the list from UK and > other part of the world as well. > Would request you all to share the Scribe policies with us across the > board if you can gather any information at your end. > It would be good to lift up our real problems in the Country through > our media at the same time when we are preparing to move to Court and > legal departments. > > Regards, > > Amit Bhatt > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
