Some Maths and Science support offered on the web comes from across the Pond
Physics Professor Dr John Gardner, who is blind and has been developing
systems and has some pages that might help
http://dots.physics.orst.edu/~gardner/jag_SAPpubs.html
At a slightly lower level but also may be useful is the Texas School for the
Blind and Visually Impaired http://www.tsbvi.edu/math/index.htm
Smith-Kettlewell Display Tools (SKDtools)
An Auditory/Tactile Data Representation Toolbox
For Matlab
http://www.ski.org/Rehab/SKDtools/index.html
Best wishes
E.A.
Mrs E.A.Draffan
TechDis, USIE, EDB,
University of Sussex,
Brighton BN1 9RG
Tel: 01273 873600
http://www.techdis.ac.uk
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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Iain Hood
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 16:02
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Subject: Re: Blind Physics applicant
There is an RNIB guide to saying aloud mathematical notation, and I suppose
these words could then be Brailled (I wish I'd realised this before). I
don't know to what level the guide goes, but it looked pretty high-falutin'
to me (maths notation above a certain level is repetitive, as you'd expect,
so maybe it could cover degree level successfully). I'm not really sure what
you mean by the application LaTeK, but what I've said might help if it is
maths-based. Or perhaps not.
As always, the best guide is likely to be: what has been the student's
method up till now?
Cheers
Iain
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:55:54 -0000 Sue Green <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone had experience of a blind student doing Physics or Maths?
> We are having problems finding a way of transcribing a Physics
> application called LaTeK into braille. If the student was doing a
> text-based subject there would be no problems, but Theoretical Physics
> is largely maths-based. There has been some work on software which
> reads maths notations etc, but only to A-level standard. Some of you
> are going to come up against this soon if you haven't already, as the
> student has applied to other Russell Group universities!
>
> Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Sue
>
> Sue Green
> Disability Co-ordinator
> The University of Birmingham
> Tel 0121 414 2897
> Fax 0121 414 5133
> email [log in to unmask]
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