holy shit anon i just saw this and i am the person who needs so much information about american schooling and blind student accessibility.
(if you are comfortable with exchanging emails or some form of contact that would be gr9 btw) but holy shit this is so useful ohmygodddd. you are an angel in human form and I am blessed by this bountiful information.
Okay so with the IDEA act for education of disabled students I'm wondering what sort of funding goes along with that, in terms of providing the student with reasonable accessibility tools. Would the school be able to purchase a braille printer or screenreaders for their computers or not for example? How involved is the parent in the process and is there a lot of paperwork and just general admin stuff that they have to deal with. (im assuming so lol) I guess you might not know but I saw that O&M training was included in the 1996(??) IDEA act and if you have some idea of how that would be incorporated into schools or school education programs (from what ive seen there's usually an independent source/clinic involved in O&M training and that would be done at the clinic or in home but im wondering how that intersects with school education.
The information about the magnet schools is really useful. What's usually involved in an application process?
In terms of your experience what accommodations have you been making to prepare for the blind student you mentioned? In terms of technology and communication with the student & family. Do you have involvement with preparing the material for the student or is it mostly passed on to the Special Education teacher you mentioned (such as formatting braille text properly and so forth)
thank you for offering to take more questions because i have so many. so many questions (like ive said looking it up is way way different to getting someone's actual experiances)
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anon i just saw this and i am the person who needs so much information about american schooling and blind student accessibility.
(if you are comfortable with exchanging emails or some form of contact that would be gr9 btw)
but holy shit this is so useful ohmygodddd. you are an angel in human form and I am blessed by this bountiful information.
Okay so with the IDEA act for education of disabled students I'm wondering what sort of funding goes along with that, in terms of providing the student with reasonable accessibility tools. Would the school be able to purchase a braille printer or screenreaders for their computers or not for example?
How involved is the parent in the process and is there a lot of paperwork and just general admin stuff that they have to deal with. (im assuming so lol)
I guess you might not know but I saw that O&M training was included in the 1996(??) IDEA act and if you have some idea of how that would be incorporated into schools or school education programs (from what ive seen there's usually an independent source/clinic involved in O&M training and that would be done at the clinic or in home but im wondering how that intersects with school education.
The information about the magnet schools is really useful. What's usually involved in an application process?
In terms of your experience what accommodations have you been making to prepare for the blind student you mentioned? In terms of technology and communication with the student & family. Do you have involvement with preparing the material for the student or is it mostly passed on to the Special Education teacher you mentioned (such as formatting braille text properly and so forth)
thank you for offering to take more questions because i have so many. so many questions (like ive said looking it up is way way different to getting someone's actual experiances)