I returned to college a couple of years ago. It is so different now from the 70's and even 80's. Email is anintegral part of college. This is true for sighted and blind students alike. It has allowed me to keep in better contact with my professors. They often send assignments directly to me instead of going through the disabled students office; it is often quicker that way especially with teachers who don't write stuff until the night before they are going to present it. I remember having to hire my own readers for classes when I first went to college in 1971. RFB&d OFTEN DIDN'T HAVE THE BOOKS AND SOMETIMES YOU WOULDN'T RECEIVE THE BOOKS YOU NEEDED UNTIL THE quarter WAS HALF OVER.
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To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:26 AM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: ot early computers
To quote what somebody said the other day "if you had to do it, you would."Lots of us grew up with far fewer tools which today are available to disabled folks.Of course things are still difficult in many ways.Believe me, things were harder in a myriad of ways when I graduated high school in 1970.There was no ADA, no legal requirement for mainstreaming and lots of overt discrimination.Discrimination now may be more subtle. As much as there is, it was worse before.I am sure the generation before mine had it even harder from their stories.I am just telling a story here rather than saying folks ought to be any way about it.I dam surprised though when I hear disabled folks reject valuable tools or refuse to learn things.There were kids I grew up with who were blind who could not or would not learn things. i have no idea what happened to them or how they coped once their parents were no longer around to take care of them.E.To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.-- No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.0/1509 - Release Date: 6/19/2008 8:00 AM
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