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Dear Christine, at Imperial College all first year UG students are
guaranteed accommodation for their first year. When necessary we accommodate
PG/MSc students with disabilities. We have a welfare / medical referrals
system for students, UG/PG/MSc, requesting further years in accommodation.
Limited numbers of students can only be accepted through this system because
of pressure on our bed stock to meet our guarantee. Medical referrals are
made through the Doctors in our Health Centre and welfare referrals are made
through our College Tutors of which we have two. As far as dyslexic students
are concerned, they are dealt with through the welfare referral system where
each applicant is treated individually and needs are assessed in an
interview. The most needy students only get referred.
Hope this helps, best wishes, Loretto O'Callaghan, Imperial College,
London.
-----Original Message-----
From: Quinn, Christine [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 26 June 2002 10:51
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Priority for accommodation for students with dyslexia
I would welcome responses on this please:
When allocating accommodation, do any of you give priority
to
students with dyslexia/specific learning difficulties (over students who do
not
declare a disability)?
Christine Y. Quinn
Student Adviser (Disabilities)
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YW
Tel: 01524 592109
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard Doherty
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Sent: 25 June 2002 17:16
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: braille embossers
I know Duxbury is popular with all the folks who
should
know and
publish on something like a commercial scale, but
you
might have a look
at BrailleMaker 2. This has the huge advantage that
it
can be used by a
blind user without assistance: it will emboss
straight
from Word with a
couple of enter pushes. Blind students can produce
exam answers in
Word, Braille them out and proof their own work from
the hard copy. It
is simple to use right out of the box, but the
settings
are pretty
sophisticated if you want to get into that sort of
thing.
I've heard lots of folks talk about how proof
reading
is essential for
all these programs. I do read a bit of Braille,
although it wouldn't
be my first choice for the beach, and I have never
seen any mistakes.
Students who use the systems haven't reported any
either; problems have
invariably been traced to original text, especially
when that has been
produced by scanning and auto-OCR. The only other
source of problems I
can imagine is when the text contains symbols that
are
part of the
system code, like *; this seemed to happen to
everything a few years
ago when all the software was DOS-based and Windows
rather a bolt-on,
but I haven't noticed it recently. At one time we
looked at package
after package, but once we installed something that
everyone could use
and was trouble-free, we stopped our search.
Regards, Bernard
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:55:03 +0100 BRYAN JONES
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wrote:
> The software we use is Duxbury Braille
Translation.
Available from
> Sight and Sound. You can check that the Braille
was
translated
> properly on the computer monitor. I.e it shows
you
the Braille
> symbols it intends to send to the embosser along
with
the English
> text. Helpful if you can't read Braille, which
most
of us can't.
>
>
> On 25 Jun 02, at 13:51, martia Bevan wrote:
>
> > Dear all
> >
> > I would like to ask if anyone could give advice
or
info on braille
> > embossers and relevant software you may have at
your institutions.
> > We at Roehampton are purchasing one soon and
would
welcome
> > any suggestions
> >
> > many thanks
> >
> > Martia
> >
> > Martia Bevan
> > Disabilities Service Adviser
> > Roehampton University of Surrey
> > [log in to unmask]
>
>
> Bryan Jones
> Disability Support Services Manager
> Tel: 020 8411 5367
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Bernard Doherty
Student Adviser
ACCESS Centre
Anglia Polytechnic University
Tel: 01223 363271 x2534
Fax: 01223 417730
Minicom: 01223 576155
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