If I could add my two cents worth, here in the Denver and surroundings' public school systems, I've been witness to the same treatment of kids and it is a problem that each year seems to get worse. They might have one or two teachers to cover the entire school system that if you're lucky might know just enough JAWS to get the child started and has no Window-eyes training at all. As far as a Braille note taker, they no they exist but the parents are too many times told that they'd half to find training for them to use it outside the school system, and that's only if the parents can provide the money to pay for both the equipment and training. I understand that parents half to provide pens, pencils and paper, for their kids but even if the parent can provide the note taker themselves, giving the child a note taker then saying "good luck," seems like a bad way to get a child started especially since the schools barely teach Braille any more to begin with. I have in the past and will do so again, volunteered my time on evenings and weekends and in fact will be working with a seven year old over the Summer on just this very thing to make sure he does get a good head start on using the tools of today.
-----Original Message----- From: erik burggraaf [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 6:16 AM To: Jody W. Ianuzzi Cc: GW Micro (List) Subject: Re: Pet Peeve And is there any context for this, or are you just trowing it out there for discussion? I just happen to be the guy who does this very thing in the Province of Ontario, IE provide the training for children using screen readers, braille displays, embossers, and notetaking devices. Not that I actually have very many kids on my books. Three at the moment, but teaching kids is far and away the best part of my job. So they don't all get left hanging out to dry with there equipment. Best, Erik Burggraaf Join me Wednesday, May 26th at CNIB Tech Aids fair in Toronto. I'll be at the assistive computing booth from 2 to 4 in the afternoon and circulating for the rest of the day. http://www.erik-burggraaf.com 888-255-5194 On 2010-05-10, at 8:41 PM, Jody W. Ianuzzi wrote: > My pet peeve is when the school system hands a 7 year old an electronic note > taker or add a screen reader to a computer but they don't give the child any > instruction on how to use it. > > This happens all too many times because the teachers don't know how they > work but they expect the child to just figure it out. > > JODY > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
