Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r I From Page 1 A TO^trAlitmA Krotlla /li/^tAvmiMi * m. im vviuiitv u&autc uicuuliaK j and braille campus map are also available to blind students. Braille textbooks are available to those students who want them, said Ammons, and can be ordered through the Center. Students can also use recorders, readers, and the closed circuit TV. Readers are students who volunteer to help with the program. They read textbooks and other material to blind students. THE DEPARTMENT helps with scheduling the totally blind so that they will not need to go all the way across campus in 15 minutes. The department also works with faculty to show them teaching techniques which help handicapped students. Many direct and indirect services are offered by the Center which students may or may not choose to use, Brickie said. The entire program is designed to make the blind student more independent, and there are many students in various stages of development. The South Carolina Commission for the Blind is also contributing money for direct student services such as housing, Brickie added. "We try to get blind students to come in the summer to orient them to the campus, because the campus is very threatening from a mobility standpoint," Brickie said. "If a student comes with generally Door mobility skills, he's in trouble," Brickie said. The Center can not teach mobility skills. "It only has the time and manpower to orient SEU INFORMATION Stuff Envelopes $25.00 PER HUNDRED Immediate Earnings Send $1.00 To: ! Envelopes Dept. 226A I j i 102 Charles Street g Boston,Mass. 02114 j | HELP WANTED! I Are you free over the lunch hour or Tuesday and Thursday? tf you are and have a car, we need you from 11:30 to I i:30 for downtown lunch deliveries. For more information, call Pizia-On- I I The GAMECOCK is the student I I newspaper of Ihe University of South I I Carolina and is published twice weekly 1 I on Monday and Thursday during the fall I I and spring semesters and once weekly ft I on Thursday during both summer terms I I with the exceptions of four times in I I August and on University of South g I Carolina holidays and examination Q s Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the editors and not those of the University of South Carolina. The University of South Carolina is an equal opportunity institution. Change of address forms, subscription requests and other correspondence I thiuilit K. .??? ? ? - ? i no uametocK, Drawer A, USC, Columbia, S.C., 29208. Subscription rata* are $4 par *eme*t?r and (2 for the lumtntr session*. Third class postage paid at Columbia, s.c. -use han v : . " V : I \\ \\l TH lIuHkM ntV ET v ill VII ?1 ^ 1 ? u|iiuuuu mucnine Staff members of the Special Pi work to help handicapped stud life at USC. They are, from lei program coordinator, and co Amnions, Dave Lundgren and B students to the campus." THE HANDICAPPED students have a strong motivation to learn, Thurber said. The grade point ratio of handicapped students is "significantly higher than the dicapped /*' ? ?^ir gjXHfln ^^^W?Vv" v^N, J^^k ' ;\' mB B^mO&BB&>$jil!* V>rr^*' /;, - ? HBVt!^^- /. t ;* i^^BjHH ^ 'y|| *ograms center front on the tal ents cope with device that el t, Bill Brickel, material and th< 11*21-- -.2 ? -- * uuaciui &? miHc visually nanaict ud Thurber. In normal population." The statistics "look encouraging", he said, adding that the Center would like to look at a long range study. Carolina is one of the few universities in the country that has lagHEBra j wf k I ?^1 get help Patty Shaughne**y?THE GAMECOCK )le is an Optacon Machine, a lectronically scans printed ;n transmits the words onto the ipped student's hand. a program for the handicapped. Lundgren said, "This program is an intricate part of the university and is trying to meet the needs and special problems of handicapped students at USC." A majority of handicapped mmMjm O 1 ( __ students live off campus, and there was a parking problem for some time. The Center now has special parking places designated for the ! handicapped, so they don't have to fight the rest of the student body. i THE CENTER is considering q ' doing a movie about the handicapped students on campus as a 'fight to remove some of the barriers," Lundgren said. { There is an advisory committee of faculty, student affairs personnel. and handicaoDed students that deals with new problems, Lundgren added. In addition to the other programs on campus for handicapped students, Lundgren says the fact O that some dorms are being renovated to accomodate handicapped students will make Carolina more attractive to handicapped students. According to Thurber, there was a problem in building facilities for handicapped students, because the students would not come where there are no facilities. But if there are no handicapped students, no one will build the facilities, he said. f) THUitBER ALSO said that the Vocational Rehabilitation program , is a new one, and if it works well it may be picked up by other schools. "Our graduates are well equipped when they leave here," said Brickie. "We try to give them the best possible training and alternate ways of learning and solving problems. We ask ourselves how to give the best possible O education to our students." m w Missm ' v-.'v.:-:j r jj jj; r 51 r> 4 | j | ^ J t i a i ^iMHMDWIW ||8 f ^ pjr.^N MBM m i