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	Classroom Accommodations – for Blind Students These are some accommodations that other community colleges and universities have found useful. The Center for Students with Disabilities can assist/advise you on these. Contact us!
Orientation to the physical layout of the classroom or laboratory can also be helpful. If you wish, you can offer an elbow or shoulder to the student and describe the route and layout of the classroom. Add the GCC disability statement to your syllabus. “All students with disabilities requiring accommodations are responsible for making arrangements with the Center for Students with disabilities in a timely manner.” (Course Overview-Policy Document, GCC Academic Senate, 2008) During lectures and demonstrations, giving clear and concise narration of the basic points being represented is helpful. Of course, this is beneficial to other students as well. Providing your classroom materials in alternate formats. Having printed material available in electronic format or on websites can allow a blind student using the appropriate, assistive technology, to access the material. (The Center for Students with Disabilities can assist/advise you on this!) Allow taping of lectures. Allow electronic or Braille notetaking devices in the classroom or laboratory. Investigate with the Alt Media Specialist of the CSD for tactile models of graphic materials such as maps, math graphs, etc. Describe artwork used in discussions, demonstrations, lectures or on-line content. Be aware that tables displayed as images are problematic and inaccessible to blind students. They can be changed from images to lists of information. (The Center for Students with Disabilities can assist/advise you on this!)

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Classroom Accommodations – for Blind Students

These are some accommodations that other community colleges and universities have found useful.

The Center for Students with Disabilities can assist/advise you on these. Contact us!

Orientation to the physical layout of the classroom or laboratory can also be helpful. If you wish, you can offer an elbow or shoulder to the student and describe the route and layout of the classroom.

Add the GCC disability statement to your syllabus.
“All students with disabilities requiring accommodations are responsible for making arrangements with the Center for Students with disabilities in a timely manner.”

(Course Overview-Policy Document, GCC Academic Senate, 2008)

During lectures and demonstrations, giving clear and concise narration of the basic points being represented is helpful. Of course, this is beneficial to other students as well.

Providing your classroom materials in alternate formats. Having printed material available in electronic format or on websites can allow a blind student using the appropriate, assistive technology, to access the material. (The Center for Students with Disabilities can assist/advise you on this!)

Allow taping of lectures.

Allow electronic or Braille notetaking devices in the classroom or laboratory.

Investigate with the Alt Media Specialist of the CSD for tactile models of graphic materials such as maps, math graphs, etc.

Describe artwork used in discussions, demonstrations, lectures or on-line content.

Be aware that tables displayed as images are problematic and inaccessible to blind students. They can be changed from images to lists of information. (The Center for Students with Disabilities can assist/advise you on this!)