Try The City Lit in London.At 13:30 21/11/96 GMT0BST, you wrote:
>I work in the disability services office at the University of Leeds,
>and part of my duties are to take notes for deaf students. I attend
>lectures, seminars, etc., and take notes on a laptop. A full sized
>keyboard is attached to the laptop, as it is too difficult to type at
>speed on a squelchy laptop keyboard. This enables both the student
>and I to read what I am typing, and a print out is available
>afterwards. Or the students can have the file copied on to disc.
>
>A similar system is used at Bristol University, where I understand
>there is a Hi-Line service. However, at Bristol the students are
>expected to buy the computers from the disabled students' allowance,
>and similarly are expected to pay stlg12.50 per hour to the notetaker.
>
>Do any other universities have facilities to take notes for deaf
>students, and if so have they found any problems with using this kind
>of system? My only problem so far has been when a lecturer has read
>his notes at breakneck speed - and I know from experience that it is
>impossible to keep up with someone reading (as opposed to speaking)
>even in shorthand, never mind on a laptop.
>
>Finally, in a small room the noise of the keyboard is terribly
>obtrusive. Does anybody know of a silent keyboard?
>
>Anne-Denise Worsnop, Disability Services,
>Room 10.08, Economics Building, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT.
>Tel: 0113 233-2616
>
>
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