Subject: Re: teaching acoustics to a student with low vision From: Chris Share <cshare01@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:39:57 +1100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Hi, I'm a research student at the SARC. Yes, Sile is on staff here. You can contact her via: sile@xxxxxxxx Cheers, Chris Al Bregman wrote: > Dear Sarah, > > You might want to contact Dr. Sile O'Modhrain (pronounced "Sheila > O'Morrin") whom I met at Media Lab Europe (now defunct), in Dublin, > several years ago. Sile is a blind audio engineer who did a thesis in > music technology at CCRMA. She has, among other things, worked on > haptic interfaces to help the blind visualize waveforms, etc. > > A home page that I found for her at the Sonic Arts Research Centre > (SARC) at Queens University, Belfast is: > http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~somodhrain/palpable/default.html > The page gives no contact information. > > I don't know whether she's still there. Somebody at CCRMA, such as > Chris Chafe (cc@xxxxxxxx) may have current contact > information for her. > > -- Al > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Albert S. Bregman, Emeritus Professor > Psychology Department, McGill University > 1205 Docteur Penfield Avenue > Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1B1. > Tel: (514) 484-2592, (514) 398-6103 > Fax: (514) 484-2592 > www.psych.mcgill.ca/labs/auditory/Home.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > On 1/18/07, Ferguson, Sarah Hargus <safergus@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >