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is very low vision and used the knifes like crazy and scared my admin to death at first. A god leaning experience I say.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello, I don't know what a mandolin is, but I use knives in my kitchen all the time and I'm totally blind. I'm always chopping up onions, peppers, whatever I want to put in my casseroles. I've had several people observe me cooking before
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 5:13 PM Normajean.Brand <<a href="mailto:normajean.brand@hccs.edu">normajean.brand@hccs.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Pro",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Hello Hive!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Pro",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">I have a student with low vision in culinary program wants to use a mandolin/slicer in lieu of
the knife skills portion of the course as an accommodation. I’ve had 2 blind students (blind since early age) who successfully graduated from the culinary program without an accommodation for the knife skills portion of the courses, and 2 other low vision
who were also successful. One you may have heard of, if you follow any cooking shows, is Christine Ha.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Pro",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">I do understand that each person’s experience with their vision is different and dependent on many
factors, but should I be worried about the risk factors of using a mandolin vs a knife? Should we think about the mandolin, which other students wouldn’t have access to, be an alteration of the essential course objectives?
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