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<div class="WordSection1">Hello Athen-List,
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<p class="MsoNormal">I wonder if anyone else is experiencing the following situation. Disability services advisors are referring students who had used FM ALDs in high school and are now advised to use a<span style="">
</span>smart pen or a digital tape recorder as their accommodation for hearing impairment.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The students come to me wanting a recorder instead of the ALD so I reluctantly give it to them.<span style="">
</span>As we all know, it is futile to argue with someone who has made up their mind about what they want. I see a major problem with this approach in that it doesn’t address the student’s need for access in real time, even as well as other accommodations like
ASL and CART. I don’t see how this accommodation would enable the student to participate by making comments or asking questions in class because s/he still can’t hear what’s going on.
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<p class="MsoNormal">It makes me wonder what the reason for this is.<span style="">
</span>Do students even ask questions in class anymore?<span style=""> </span>I queried the last student who came to see me.<span style="">
</span>She said she didn’t like carrying the FM device to class. She also didn’t like<span style="">
</span>having to give the transmitter to the teacher at the beginning of every class.<span style="">
</span>She said that there was a lot of static on the receiver. (Maybe it wasn’t charged fully.)
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<p class="MsoNormal">From my experience, a properly functioning FM listening device transmits sound loudly and clearly from a speaker to a listener in a way that no other device can. .<span style="">
</span>Are Assistive Listening Devices no longer being used as an accommodation in higher education?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks much in advance for your comments. I would really welcome the thoughts of others on this subject.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"; color:#1F497D">Steven A. Sullam M.S.</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light","sans-serif"; color:#44546A"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light","sans-serif"; color:#44546A">Center for Student Accessibility</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light","sans-serif"; color:#44546A">College of Staten Island</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light","sans-serif"; color:#44546A">City University of New York</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri Light","sans-serif"; color:#44546A"></span></span></p>
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