How This University is Helping Blind Students With Math
This is the kind of thing we love to see from our institutions of higher education.
The Washington Times reports:
University begins project to help blind students with math
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Until he was 13, Logan Prickett did everything a normal child did.
However, anaphylactic reaction to contrast dye in an MRI test left him blind and confined to a wheelchair, without proper use of his motor skills and unable to speak louder than a whisper. Despite this, he graduated high school and recently completed his first year at Auburn Montgomery.
One subject Prickett is interested in is math, but because of his blindness, he was unable to solve problems the way other students could. His case ultimately became part of a pilot project launched this week to give blind students and those with lower vision the opportunity to solve math problems in normal classrooms.
“I’m probably the most excited person here,” Prickett said during the May 18 kickoff.
Monday marked the kickoff of the Logan Project, a collaboration between Auburn Montgomery and Auburn University to develop software so students with conditions similar to Prickett’s can fully participate in math courses at the collegiate level and then enter careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
University begins project to help blind students with math (Washington Times)
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It is wonderful to hear that a university is using it’s resources to help the blind. It is so long since I have had a reason to complement a university specifically or universities in general.