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From: Tom Brennan
Date: 04 Oct 2009
Time: 18:55:22 -0500
Remote Name: 144.96.128.14
Thanks for pointing the article on this girl. I hope (and ratherf expect) that she will do will and go in to audiology. She is lucky in that she has a good bit of useable vision so enlarging things will be the main modification for her. With today's computers this should be fairly easily accomplished even down to abr, qeeg, etc. I certainly wish her all the luck in the world and will be glad to help in any way that I can. Actually, in some way ASHA cnanging to all online journals is more of a problem than the print journals. At least with the print you could scan them. With the online journals you have to have immediate access to a computer and you must be able to read pdf files. There are graphics in the files and sections of most of them are locked. The fact of locking anywhere in a file makes it impossible to read. Hopefully eventually a way around that will be found. I have toyed with the idea of starting a group for "handicapped" folks in audiology and/or speech pathology. There is already a group for hearing involved audiologists, stuttering speech pathologists, etc. With a group having multiple disabilities you'd run in to the problem that each disability has very specific requirements for modifications. It certainly might be something to think about. I am a member of the American ?Foundation for the Blind's mentoring program and have gotten a number of referrals to blind folks interested in either speech pathology or audiology. So far, nobody who is totally blind has even finished a graduate program and in speech path there are only about a dozen blind folks. What I'd really eventually like to do is supervise a blind person's audiology CFY.