tzippy@dasys1.uucp (Tzipporah BenAvraham) (06/04/90)
Index Number: 8583 In his message to ALL, YOSHIYA KOIZUMI says: >#: 20450 S0/General Interest > 31-May-90 13:21:08 >Sb: About my trip to USA >Fm: TOSHIYA KOIZUMI 76661,1176 >To: ALL >I am a cerebral palsy man in Japan. It is very hard to walk around alone with >wheelchair. But I want to take a 3 week trip to the United States alone in >this July. Because I want to study more about computer science which is >related to the handicapped at some universities in the USA. So I will try to >find the university what I want to go during the trip. Does someone have the >information? If you have it, please let me know! Now I work for IBM Japan as a >computer programer. But I have never graduated from university. It is very >difficult to go to university in Japan for the handicapped. I would like to >know someone who can help me to look around for a few days in the trip as a >volunteer? I would like to go to some of West Coast cities , Twin city MN and >Chicago IL. But I am not sure now. > Toshiya Koizumi Hello, Toshiya Koizumi-san! I am happy to meet you. I am a lady professor of computers in teh United States New York City. I have had very fine relationships with your country and with disability groups. In fact, at the United Nations, I have met many people from your country including Senator Yoshiro Eita, Governor Suzuki, and Commissioner of the Physically Handicapped Nozumo Mori from your ministry of social welfare. In that, I say hello to you and welcome you. I am not on the West Coast, in fact I am very far on the east Coast of the country. I would enjoy meeting you in my laboratory at Brooklyn College. We have many laboritories for the handicapped here and many colleges to teach disabled persons alongside of others. I am blind and use a wheelchair from multiple sclerosis. But I have a PhD! So anything is possible. I am sure I can give you good educational counseling so you can go to college here for a computer science degree. In California there is a community college which is prominant for disabled students. It is headed by Carl Brown, a very great expert in disability education for disabled college students. I send you this press release about his book: -Subj- Computer Access/Higher Ed/Book >From "Foundation for Science and the Handicapped, Inc., Newsletter," vol. 12, #1, Winter 1988, and the Spring 1988 issue of "Science for the Handicapped Good Newsletter" COMPUTER ACCESS IN HIGHER EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES is a reference handbook, by Carl Brown (1987), that explains the process of adapting computer technology on the community college campus for students with disabilities. Based on the author's experiences directing the first High-Tech Center, now the keystone of the California Community College computer accommodation structure, the book provides both technical support and historical background for creating computer access on campus. Brown traces the evolution of computer access, from special "handicapped" workstations to interchangeable workplace tools. He describes the electronic webbing that can integrate or exclude students with disabilities from the mainstream. Chapters include creating access and adaptations for students with visual, orthopedic, and learning disabilities. Profiles of the center director and successful users are combined with case studies to provide a useful spectrum of examples. A strong chapter on funding strategies gives campus administrators practical tips on starting an accessible computer center. Additional chapters discuss adapted computer access from both legal and employer perspectives. Equitable access to computerized testing, insuring access to publicly funded databases, and bringing new graphics technology to blind users are each assessed for impact on computer users with disabilities. Readers learn about such new technologies as Optical Character Recognition (OCR), voice recognition, and visual selection. An annotated product guide is also included. A limited number of printed copies are available free from the High Tech Center for the Disabled, California Community Colleges, 1107 Ninth St., Sacramento, CA 95814. A text will be commercially available during 1988. The text is also available on IBM formatted floppy disk by arrangement with the author. Is this of use to you? I hope so. If you are able to internet please do so at the following email addreses for me: zippy@bklyn.bitnet; tzippy@dasys1.uucp; zippy@sjuvm.bitnet and of course here on Compuserve at 71521,2451. Dewa mata, Dr Tzipporah Benavraham