If anyone is interested in taking Esme's idea forward, please get in touch with me at Blind in Business.
Roxanne Persaud
Director
Blind in Business
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Esme wrote
As a visually impaired student I can tell you this, we need universities to
do something. Instead of having to attend a specific university for a
specific subject, how about each university being responsible for
researching (or keeping a record of solutions to) the problems associated
with disabled students studying a couple of subjects. That way we would know
that to get assistance studying, say, psychology, we could contact York.
Or we could have a central database containing information, details on
special equipment, solutions to problems, etc, in a specific place. As far
as I am aware, no such service exists. I have spent several months
desperately searching for help with maths and physics and have got precisely
nowhere until I found dis-forum. Nobody told me about it.
People seem to assume that the RNIB could help. You could not be more
wrong.....
Esme
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