Study tips for university students with low vision?
Hi everyone! I’m just curious if there are some visually impaired students out there? I would be interested if you have any special habits that helps you keep the pace with your uni studies.
As for me, I have low vision, so I have to face the problems every day that it causes.
I started my uni studies in physics about 2 years ago now, but still don’t know the perfect solution for my difficulties. (Maybe there are no perfect solution at all.)
Most of the time I can’t see what the professor writes on the blackboard, so it is very difficult to keep pace with a maths or physics lecture and take my own notes.
I tried to take records from lectures and re-listen it after I get home, but to say the truth it’s almost useless for me. I have too many classes so I haven’t got enough time to re-listen them and it’s impossible to do that in a daily basis. (I don’t say that recordings are not useful sometimes! They are. Just not for an everyday study routine.)
I also tried to study from others’ notes, but I have struggled with it a lot too. It’s not easy for me to read someone else’s handwriting, but if I can, there also the fact that I usually don’t get the logic behind their notes. (I hope you know what I want to say.)
I think that is enough for the first time, so there is the end of my snivel. :D
The main question is still the same: are there other visually impaired students out there? Or anyone with a useful advice, opinion, tip, idea (or whatever) ?
I naively think that one day this post (and mostly the incidental answers to the post) actually can be useful for others too (maybe).
Ps. I’m sorry if my English is incomprehensible at times.












