Hi Paul,
I seem to recollect that when I worked at London Met we had a blind student
who used a Braille 'n' Speak to write her exam. This was then printed out
afterwards via a computer. This worked well as far as I can remember and
this method would miss out having a person to do the transcription. Not
knowing enough about the way in which manual and electronic machines are
used, would your student be able to transfer his Braille skills to one of
these? If he could, perhaps you could hire one or persuade one of the
suppliers to lend you one. Just a thought.
Yes, I do think it is a reasonable adjustment, either way.
Caroline
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Jarman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:43 PM
Subject: Examinations in Braille
> HI everyone,
>
> Has anyone ever allowed any of their visually-impaired students to write
> their examination papers in Braille, and have them transcribed afterwards?
> Of course I am aware that a standard reasonable adjustment is to have the
> papers themselves turned into Braille--and I can do that myself,
> obviously--but what about the student's answers? We have an international
> student who has put in a request to write out his exam answers on a
> perkins--that's one of those old-fashioned mechanical Brailling machines
> for
> those who don't know--because this is how he has always done things in
> school in Iran. In fact, that's how things are usually still done here in
> schools as well. At HE level however, I get the impression that most VI
> students use the PC with Jaws/Supernova etc. That's how all our previous
> VI
> students have sat exams anyway, as did I. Have any of your students just
> Brailled them out though, and would you consider this to be a reasonable
> adjustment to allow him to do so? He says that his typing speed is not
> sufficient to use the PC. Of course it would land us with plenty more
> work,
> transcribing back into print etc., but I guess this is no excuse, as
> always.
> Thoughts welcome.
>
> Paul.
>
> Paul Jarman,
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