[Athen] A Dragon question

[Wink Harner]

Thanks Gaier. Appreciate the advice. I think I will prepare my AT staff in
advance for how to work with him in the lab. I made some other recommendations
(well, I thought they were good!) for alternatives, but he wanted nothing
to do with anything else.

Will keep you (all) posted.

Thanks again,

Wink


>-- Original Message --

>From: "Gaeir Dietrich" <gdietrich at htctu.net>

>To: "'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'" <athen at athenpro.org>

>Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:03:43 -0700

>Subject: Re: [Athen] A Dragon question

>Reply-To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network <athen at athenpro.org>

>

>

>You are absolutely correct in all that you say...and my advice, let him

use

>it anyway. Odds are he'll fail very quickly, and that will be the end of

>it.

>He'll move on to the next great idea. 

>

>Any other course of action on your part, and you become "the problem." 

>

>Just my two cents. ;-)

>

>******************************************************

>Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich

>High Tech Center Training Unit of the

>California Community Colleges

>De Anza College, Cupertino, CA

>www.htctu.net

>408-996-6043

>-----Original Message-----

>From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On

>Behalf Of Wink Harner

>Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 8:33 AM

>To: DSSHE-L at LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; ATHEN

>Subject: [Athen] A Dragon question

>

>Hi all,

>

>This is a question about DNS use as appropriate accommodation, not a

>technical

>question. A student has multiple disorders including OCD & inability to

>control

>his voice. He is demanding Dragon Naturally Speaking [which would be limited

>to use in our adaptive lab where it is loaded --an 8-station lab in the

>library

>with other people working/talking/using computers]. I explained how one

has

>to speak in grammatically correct (more or less) English and be able to

>control

>tone & pitch reasonably well with the voice in order to receive optimum

>output

>& recognition. He is not asking for this as an accommodation, nor does he

>have any documentation that would necessarily support it as an

>accommodation,

>but rather he wants to have it for "taking notes" for personal use and

>homework.

>He is unable to control his anger & frustration and I tried very hard to

>explain that there were other, better options which he could use at home,

>including purchasing DNS on his own, purchasing a portable speech-to-text

>recorder which is a lot more portable. IMHO, the control, both of having

>to think in grammatically correct English and of the voice itself would

>exacerbate

>the OCD and not work well with this student.

>

>Any suggestions from you wise ones?

>

>Blessings,

>

>Wink

>

>Ms. Wink Harner

>Manager

>Disability Resources & Services

>Mesa Community College

>Mesa AZ

>

>480-461-7447

>

>

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Ms. Wink Harner
Manager
Disability Resources & Services
Mesa Community College
Mesa AZ

480-461-7447