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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Students with Disabilities Discovering Key to Academic Success is an Online Degree
Vida Sanchez grew up in a tropical paradise - but it did not seem that way to her. She remembers squinting a lot as a child. Her mother had to shoo her outside to play. The glorious, sun-drenched days of her island home were something Vida did her best to avoid. Growing up in the Dominican Republic, Vida had no idea she had a degenerative eye condition called progressive cone dystrophy. She just knew her eyes hurt in the sunlight. And unfortunately, after she came to the United States at the age of 14, her situation did not improve.... After discussing Vida's situation and needs, Capella's Disability Services connected her with resources that could provide her with text books that she could read, a type of CD player that is adapted for the blind called the Victor Reader, and other accommodations to help her successfully complete her PhD. Lisa Bromenshenkel, disability services specialist at Capella, says that Vida's situation is similar to the 350 other students with disabilities at the university: it is unique ... and it can be made to work. "I have had students who have said that without an online education, they wouldn't have been able to go back to school," she says.
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