Blind students navigate Harvard bureaucracy
December 15th, 2007From the Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at Harvard University:
Students with visual impairments say Harvard University is often unresponsive to their needs. The main problem, they say, is the Accessible Education Office, which oversees services for students with disabilities.
Among their anecdotes: efforts by the University to place a blind student in a room next to a wheelchair door; academic assistants who refused to help with basic academic tasks; and assistive technology that was provided a month late.
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