My husband and I do readings of textbooks for blind and dyslexic students
for a large company in Boston with offices nationwide. (Here's their
website - it's lots of fun if anyone is interested in donating some time:
http://www.rfbd.org/about.htm ) One of the things we had to learn to do is
to describe graphs, pictures and diagrams. It takes some practice, but we
found that it helps us to appreciate exactly what is portrayed.
I'd suggest taking a look at some of the graphics you use and practice with
about four or five of them until you get pretty good at describing them.
I'm sure that even sighted students would find it helpful. ("On the
horizontal axis, we see....and on the vertical axis is....") After you've
done a few, you'll find it comes a lot easier.
Beth Benoit
University System of New Hampshire
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From: "Hershberger, Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:03 AM
Subject: Blind student
I will be teaching a completely blind student next semester in my general
psychology course. The text and readings will be available on audio tape,
but I am looking for TIPS, which is the point of this list. The major
difficulty is that I make extensive use of graphics in the lectures (graphs,
pictures, diagrams, etc) and routinely use video clips to make points. I
have been in touch with all of the obvious offices and agencies.
Comments, suggestions, advice, etc. are welcome.
Tom Hershberger
Thomas J. Hershberger, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Chatham College
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
412 365-1128
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