From mphillips@umsl.edu Fri Mar 10 06:47:12 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id GAA18498 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 06:47:11 -0800 Received: from admiral.umsl.edu (admiral.umsl.edu [134.124.15.13]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id GAA00922 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 06:47:11 -0800 Received: from phillipsm.umsl.edu (phillipsm.umsl.edu [134.124.140.161]) by admiral.umsl.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA25236 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:47:10 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20000310084726.014d68e4@umsl-mail02.umsl.edu> X-Sender: phillipsm@umsl-mail02.umsl.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:47:26 -0600 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Margaret Phillips Subject: Services for the visually impaired (was: Re: Audiotapes) In-Reply-To: <4.3.0.20000310080104.00b26f00@idirect.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Our campus Disability Access Services office (providing services mandated by the US Americans with Disabilities Act) contracts out to a local prison the task of reproducing texts in enlarged print for visually impaired (but not needing Braille) students. Probably some similar arrangement exists for those who need Braille. For hearing impaired, the office provides sign language translators (but I don't know how that would work in a language course). For any who cannot write for any reason, that office provides writers, appropriately proctoring the tests. I now see that your question specifically asked about audiotapes. I don't know directly; sorry. For the Latin or Greek texts, that would indeed require someone who could read the stuff. But there may be some similar arrangement. I don't know if any clearinghouse exists for such information--a good idea--but surely there must be something like that in the US because of the requirements of the law. I don't know what the law requires elsewhere. Margaret Phillips At 08:04 AM 3/10/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Curiosity question I've been meaning to ask for a long time: > >Are there any individuals or organizations out there who put Classics >textbooks (stuff for courses), papers (ditto), both in English and say, >Latin or Greek, for the benefit of visually-handicapped students? Or is >this sort of thing usually accomplished by having volunteers read to such >students?? If the former, it seems to me that it would be a good thing, in >the Marth Stewart sense, to create some sort of informal >network/clearinghouse so departments could share such resources, no? > >dm >]|[David Meadows]|[ http://web.idirect.com/~atrium ]|[Rogue Classicist]|[ > ------------------------------------------ Margaret B. Phillips Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures Clark Hall 535 University of Missouri at St. Louis 8001 Natural Bridge Road St. Louis, MO 63121 314-516-6864 http://www.umsl.edu/divisions/artscience/forlanglit/mbp.html mphillips@umsl.edu .