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Jennifer Sutton, a visually impaired graduate student of English, uses a
computer to help her read a philosophy text.
Lab: New technology
to be placed in areas
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available for those who are visu
ally impaired. The lab's voice ac
tivated computer offers some stu
dents and faculty the opportunity
to rely on their voices instead of
their hands.
Once students have learned to
use the technology, Wentworth
says it is important that main
streaming occurs so students with
disabilities feel comfortable using
these computers in larger com
puting labs, such as the one in the
EMU, or the Information Tech
nology Center in the Knight Li
brary.
are just being introduced to it,
they expect the technology to be
at the University so they can write
papers and read texts required for
classes, Bailey said.
"Disregard the fact that there
are laws to comply with,” he said.
“We need to provide these ser
vices to students with disabilities
because they have paid their tu
ition."
The technology in the Adaptive
Technology Lab is not that expen
sive, according to Bailey, and it
has the potential to make the Uni
versity’s more than 500 students
with disabilities more indepen
dent.
Introducing this technology
into the main computer labs is
one of James Bailey's goals. Bai
ley, the adaptive technology ac
cess advisor, trains people with
disabilities to use the technology
in the lab.
Whether disabled students
come to the University already
using the technology at home, or
Adding a soundcard and voice
box to a computer costs between
$1000 and $2000 dollars, and dic
tation software runs about $800.
"The fact that it can facilitate
someone’s independence makes
it worthwhile," a University
counselor for students with dis
abilities, Hillary Gerdes said.
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