[Menvi-discuss] Please help needed to accommodate music student

[Dianne Moore]

This Fall semester, one of the students whom I serve will be taking the college Music Technology class.  This class is housed in a Mac lab where students use Finale, Pro Tools, and Pro Logic.  This student uses JAWS as her screen reader yet Freedom Scientific tells us that JAWS is not compatible with Mac nor with Pro Logic.

 

This student and I have already planned to have a reader/scribe in class with her; however, she will need to learn these programs for the course.  Is it possible for her to use these programs?  What do I need to know to accommodate her appropriately?  How does she need to prepare herself?  Do we need totally different software programs for her?

 

I am not knowledgeable in music ed, but I am responsible for providing her accommodations.  Can any of you give me some direction?  I am currently researching the three programs via goggle and their companies' sites and support links..attempting to learn as much as I can about these three program accessibilities.

 

Additionally, the course instructor and the music dept. chair are currently on vacation and unavailable for me to learn more about what this student needs to be able to do going in to the course and what the student will be doing with these programs in the weeks of the class.

 

Meantime, time is passing and I need to organize effective accommodations.

 

Urgently seeking direction,

 

Dianne Moore, MA

Reader Services Coordinator

GB204-32

517-483-5263

Office of Disability Support Services

Lansing Community College



 

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