g'evening guyz.
i just came back from FMS, DU.; with blessings from
Pankaj Somnathe; for the DCS commune. (the person being talked about is visually impared)
now
about pankaj.
he completed his 12th in 1994, then completed a diploma for 2yrs in education. then he took up a job as a teacher for 5-7th std students, since he comes from a family of teachers, he stayed with the profession as well.
now, during his teaching tenure, that he first realised that he is having diffculty in seeing things clearly. he wore spectacles of the power -5.5 till then, but then finally opted for lazer therapy to no avail.pankaj has completed his BBM from bangalore, carried out a garment business and learnt to use the computer (using an interactive windows software called JAWS) even with his disability.
he is suffereing from a heridatory disease called 'retinis pigmentosa' and his condition is detiriorating.
now, pankaj can just see a blur of faint light, can barely read text thats about 2" tall, can use his computer to listen to some text he has on it, and now he has his 2nd semester MBA exams from 15th march 2005. 
his requirement: 1.requires someone who can make his understand the course material. 'cos his professors are not co-operating. he uses a tape-recoreder to listen to his lectures. but he needs someone who can read him the books.
a) the volunteer should have some knowledge of that subject.
b) would need to spend about 2-3hrs on atleast saturdays & sundays.
c) the reading process generally followed is:
first read, that means reading out the text, so pankaj gets the picture.
second read, in which he would tell you to underline important text.
third, you dictate him the important text, so he can store it on the computer/cassete.
2.the scribe, as per DU rules (the person that writes the exams for a visually impared student)
a) must be from one level of education lower than the visually impared student. thus, in this case we require an under-grad, or someone in his grad school.
b)the scribe needs some familiarising as well. this would range from 1-2hrs for a theory subject to a max. of 4-5days(1hr daily) in subjects like economics that require illustrations.
3.the problematic subjects this semester are:
a) management accounting
b) financial mgmt
c) operations mgmt
d) mgmt sciences.
now
a. i propose that more than one volunteer go for the reading session (speaking for even 1hr continously can make you quite hoarse)
b. engg. guys, plz PM me, we can at least start with operations/mgmt sciences<this saturday>. (how i wish i had paid more attention to my workshop practices & industrial management subjects. )
pankaj was in very low spirits, though he didnot let it show; his eyes could tell it all..he even mentioned quitting the MBA program.
i hope DCS comes up with some solutions, real quick..
anyone, who feels can lend a hand; please PM me.
its a very difficult task in hand. and an enormous one too...
i request the members to please post some suggestions on the DCS thread, on as to how to go about the whole scenario.
regards,
r.
and guys please dont say that i will be doing any community service for teaching (as it would help me also 
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