Subject: Re: teaching acoustics to a student with low vision From: Thomas G Brennan <g_brennantg@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:22:33 -0600 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Being totally blind I've both taken such courses as well as taught them. I'd be glad to talk with your student or with you about some ways to deal with the issues involved. Tom Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Ferguson, Sarah Hargus wrote: > Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:48:29 -0600 > From: "Ferguson, Sarah Hargus" <safergus@xxxxxxxx> > To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx > Subject: teaching acoustics to a student with low vision > > Hello all - I have a student in my Physics of Speech class this semester > who has a visual impairment. We've worked out a number of ways to help > her access the material, such as enlarging text and having a note-taker > in class to get all of the board work, but are stuck on the lab portion > of the course. Most of lab activities use Multispeech and involve having > students reading waveforms, spectra, and spectrograms. Does anyone have > any experience with/ suggestions for ways we can help this student be > able to reap the benefits of this hands-on portion of the course? > > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > Sarah Hargus Ferguson, Ph.D., CCC-A > Assistant Professor > Department of Speech-Language-Hearing: Sciences and Disorders > University of Kansas > Dole Center > 1000 Sunnyside Ave., Room 3001 > Lawrence, KS 66045 > office: (785)864-1116 > Speech Acoustics and Perception Lab: (785)864-0610 > http://www.ku.edu/~splh/ipcd/Faculty/FergusonBio.html >